VerneMQ can be installed on Debian or Ubuntu-based systems using the binary package we provide.
Once you have downloaded the binary package, execute the following command to install VerneMQ:
Note: Replace bionic with appropriate OS version such as focal/trusty/xenial.
You can verify that VerneMQ is successfully installed by running:
If VerneMQ has been installed successfully Status: install ok installed is returned.
To use the provided binary packages the VerneMQ EULA must be accepted. See for more information.
Once you've installed VerneMQ, start it on your node:
The whereis vernemq command will give you a couple of directories:
Now that you've installed VerneMQ, check out .
sudo dpkg -i vernemq-<VERSION>.bionic.x86_64.deb/usr/sbin/vernemq:
the vernemq and vmq-admin commands
/usr/lib/vernemq
the vernemq package
/etc/vernemq
the vernemq.conf file
/usr/share/vernemq
the internal vernemq schema files
/var/lib/vernemq
the vernemq data dirs for LevelDB (Metadata Store and Message Store)
dpkg -s vernemq | grep Statusservice vernemq startwhereis vernemq
vernemq: /usr/sbin/vernemq /usr/lib/vernemq /etc/vernemq /usr/share/vernemq