mosquitto command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mosquitto: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mosquitto: command not found

Solutions to mosquitto: command not found

How To Fix mosquitto: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mosquitto is provided by mosquitto package.

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.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install mosquitto

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install mosquitto.

sudo apt -y install mosquitto

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install mosquitto

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mosquitto command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.