How To Install mosquitto on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mosquitto
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mosquitto
Remove mosquitto Configurations and Data
To remove mosquitto
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mosquitto
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.