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[Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefano,

Thanks, that's a good suggestion. I've updated the page.

Cheers,

Roger


On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:31 PM, stefano costa
<stefano.costa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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:
>
> <skip>
> 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:
>
> <skip>
> 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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