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

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

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1. Install "mosquitto-clients" package

This is a short guide on how to install mosquitto-clients on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall mosquitto-clients 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-clients package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mosquitto-clients
Source: mosquitto
Version: 2.0.11-1.2+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 287
Maintainer: Roger A. Light
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libmosquitto1 (= 2.0.11-1.2+deb12u1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcjson1 (>= 1.7.5)
Description: Mosquitto command line MQTT clients
Description-md5: 985d19effedae01383cfa3eaa155e7ec
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://mosquitto.org/
Tag: role::program
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mosquitto/mosquitto-clients_2.0.11-1.2+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 110580
MD5sum: 1c52689a63e3e0e3b5f0d0e1766c24f6
SHA256: 2441e6019f78565edfe0f2f90bfe66efd2536435f7a7a555e2c4c6d5069364b1