Installing a Mosquitto broker on Ubuntu Linux

Now, we will learn the necessary steps to install a Mosquitto broker, also known as Mosquitto MQTT server on the most popular operating systems: Linux, macOS and Windows. First, we will start with Linux; specifically, we will work with Ubuntu Linux. In case you want to work with a different Linux distribution, you can find details about the installation procedure in the Mosquitto downloads section: http://mosquitto.org/download.

Follow these steps to install a Mosquitto broker on Ubuntu Linux. Take into account that you will require root privileges:

  1. Open a Terminal window and run the following command to add the Mosquitto repository:
          sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mosquitto-dev/mosquitto-ppa

    After you ...

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