How To Install mosquitto-clients on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mosquitto-clients
on Debian 9.
What is mosquitto-clients
mosquitto-clients is:
This is two MQTT version 3.1/3.1.1 command line clients. mosquitto_pub can be used to publish messages to a broker and mosquitto_sub can be used to subscribe to a topic to receive messages.
MQTT provides a method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. It is lightweight, both in terms of bandwidth usage and ease of implementation. This makes it particularly useful at the edge of the network where a sensor or other simple device may be implemented using an arduino for example.
There are three methods to install mosquitto-clients
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mosquitto-clients Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mosquitto-clients
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mosquitto-clients
Install mosquitto-clients Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mosquitto-clients
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mosquitto-clients
Install mosquitto-clients Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mosquitto-clients
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mosquitto-clients
How To Uninstall mosquitto-clients on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mosquitto-clients
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mosquitto-clients
Uninstall mosquitto-clients And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mosquitto-clients
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mosquitto-clients
Remove mosquitto-clients Configurations and Data
To remove mosquitto-clients
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mosquitto-clients
Remove mosquitto-clients configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mosquitto-clients
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mosquitto-clients
Dependencies
mosquitto-clients have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mosquitto-clients
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.