How to Install and Uninstall mosquitto Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 15,2024

You can also install and uninstall the mosquitto on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "mosquitto" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install mosquitto on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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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 step by step instructions below to uninstall mosquitto on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mosquitto package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mosquitto
Version: 2.0.11-1.2+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 1038
Maintainer: Roger A. Light
Architecture: amd64
Depends: adduser (>= 3.10), libcjson1 (>= 1.7.13), libmosquitto1 (= 2.0.11-1.2+deb12u1), lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian3), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libdlt2 (>= 2.18.8), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libsystemd0, libwrap0 (>= 7.6-4~)
Suggests: apparmor
Description: MQTT version 5.0/3.1.1/3.1 compatible message broker
Description-md5: f8c193c62c4a30a9acfb862fd9561343
Homepage: https://mosquitto.org/
Tag: role::program
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mosquitto/mosquitto_2.0.11-1.2+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 409296
MD5sum: 94fade2c66620570cb22f3a4ceb5d65c
SHA256: d40cb7cdfabb0543514e407386641085c7674b7cbfaddaa7b45656404e614af6