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[stefano costa <stefano.costa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
not sure if this is the right way of reporting this... but I found that 
the description about how to install Mosquitto on Ubuntu (a rather 
frequent situation) could be a bit more complete, in the 
"http://mosquitto.org/download/"; page of Mosquitto web site.

Now there is an indication like this:

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add the mosquitto-dev PPA to your repositories list – see the link for 
details. mosquitto can then be installed from your package manager.
* apt-add-repository ppa:mosquitto-dev/mosquitto-ppa
<skip>

Two problems:
- if I already have Mosquitto installed time ago from the official Ubuntu 
Repositories, this command is not sufficient in order to upgrade Mosquitto 
to a more recent version from ppa:mosquitto.
- if I'm working on a Ubuntu Server edition the command 
"apt-add-repository" may not be present.

So I would suggest this as an indication:

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add the mosquitto-dev PPA to your repositories list – see the link for 
details. mosquitto can then be installed from your package manager.
* sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mosquitto-dev/mosquitto-ppa
* sudo apt-get update

In case the command "apt-add-repository" is not being recognized, it can 
be installed with:
* sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
<skip>

Thanks!! S

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