mqtt command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mqtt command not found error message

Introduction

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

mqtt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mqtt: command not found

In Ubuntu mqtt is provided by node-mqtt package.

node-mqtt is:

MQTT.js is a client library for the MQTT (http://mqtt.org/) protocol, written in JavaScript for node.js and the browser.

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-mqtt

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

You can also use apt command to install node-mqtt.

sudo apt -y install node-mqtt

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

sudo aptitude install node-mqtt

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