How To Install mosquitto on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mosquitto on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mosquitto

Remove mosquitto Configurations and Data

To remove mosquitto configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• adduser
• libcjson1
• libmosquitto1
• lsb-base
• libc6
• libdlt2
• libssl1.1
• libsystemd0
• libwebsockets16
• libwrap0

References

• mosquitto website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mosquitto package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.