How To Install mosquitto on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mosquitto on Debian 10.
What is mosquitto
mosquitto is:
This is a message broker that supports version 3.1 and 3.1.1 of the MQTT protocol.
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 on Debian 10. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mosquitto
Install mosquitto Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mosquitto using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mosquitto
Install mosquitto 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mosquitto
How To Uninstall mosquitto on Debian 10
To uninstall only the mosquitto package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mosquitto
Uninstall mosquitto And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mosquitto and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mosquitto
Remove mosquitto Configurations and Data
To remove mosquitto configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mosquitto
Remove mosquitto configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mosquitto configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mosquitto
Dependencies
mosquitto have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mosquitto package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.