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Re: Details about Mosquitto PPA

 

Also worth updating the mosquitto section on the mqtt.org wiki - it has
been on my todo list for a while actually... there's a write-up somewhere
around of someone installing it on Raspberry Pi too... worth trying to get
the new release into Raspbian.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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