How to Install and Uninstall mosquitto Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "mosquitto" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install mosquitto on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                mosquitto
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "mosquitto" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall mosquitto on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                mosquitto
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mosquitto package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: mosquitto
Version: 1.5.7-1+deb10u1
Installed-Size: 361
Maintainer: Roger A. Light
Architecture: amd64
Depends: adduser (>= 3.10), libuuid1 (>= 2.16), lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian3), libc6 (>= 2.14), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libsystemd0, libwebsockets8 (>= 1.6.0), libwrap0 (>= 7.6-4~)
Suggests: apparmor
Description: MQTT version 3.1/3.1.1 compatible message broker
Description-md5: 307c8e6f529318d6f3294b62a053c404
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://mosquitto.org/
Tag: role::program
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mosquitto/mosquitto_1.5.7-1+deb10u1_amd64.deb
Size: 158780
MD5sum: 22258669c9a8b8830b316d84511672cc
SHA256: 7e6320a6469fdce38887d7b0f79bf2308413a17a86668b4412e6da5a6a749920