Installing on Debian and Ubuntu

VerneMQ can be installed on Debian or Ubuntu-based systems using the binary package we provide.

Install VerneMQ

Once you have downloaded the binary package, execute the following command to install VerneMQ:

sudo dpkg -i vernemq_<%= latest_version() %>-1_amd64.deb

You can verify that VerneMQ is successfully installed by running:

dpkg -s vernemq | grep Status

If VerneMQ has been installed successfully Status: install ok installed is returned.

Once you've installed VerneMQ, start it on your node:

service vernemq start

The whereis vernemq command will give you a couple of directories:

whereis vernemq
vernemq: /usr/sbin/vernemq /usr/lib/vernemq /etc/vernemq /usr/share/vernemq

Path

Description

/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)

Now that you've installed VerneMQ, check out How to configure VerneMQ.

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