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  • Welcome
  • Getting Started
  • Downloads
  • VerneMQ / MQTT Introduction
  • Installing VerneMQ
    • Installing on Debian and Ubuntu
    • Installing on CentOS and RHEL
    • Running VerneMQ using Docker
  • Configuring VerneMQ
    • Introduction
    • The VerneMQ conf file
    • Schema Files
    • Auth using files
    • Auth using a database
    • MQTT Options
    • MQTT Listeners
    • HTTP Listeners
    • Non-standard MQTT options
    • Websockets
    • Logging
    • Consumer session balancing
    • Plugins
    • Shared subscriptions
    • Advanced Options
    • Storage
    • MQTT Bridge
    • REST Publisher
  • VerneMQ Clustering
    • Introduction
    • Inter-node Communication
    • Dealing with Netsplits
  • Live Administration
    • Introduction
    • Inspecting and managing sessions
    • Retained messages
    • Live reconfiguration
    • Managing Listeners
    • Certificate Management
    • HTTP API
    • Tracing
    • Output Format
  • Monitoring
    • Introduction
    • $SYSTree
    • Graphite
    • Netdata
    • Prometheus
    • Health Checker
    • Status Page
  • Plugin Development
    • Introduction
    • Session lifecycle
    • Subscribe Flow
    • Publish Flow
    • Enhanced Auth Flow
    • Erlang Boilerplate
    • Lua Scripting Support
    • Webhooks
  • Misc
    • Loadtesting VerneMQ
    • Not a tuning guide
    • Change Open File Limits
  • Guides
    • A typical VerneMQ deployment
    • VerneMQ on Kubernetes
    • Loadtesting VerneMQ
    • Clustering during development
    • Not a tuning guide
    • Change Open File Limits
    • Migrating to 2.0
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  • Verify your installation
  • Activate VerneMQ node
  • Default Directories and Paths
  • Next Steps

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  1. Installing VerneMQ

Installing on Debian and Ubuntu

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

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Install VerneMQ

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

sudo dpkg -i vernemq-<VERSION>.bionic.x86_64.deb

Note: Replace bionic with appropriate OS version such as focal/trusty/xenial.

Verify your installation

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.

Activate VerneMQ node

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:

service vernemq start

Default Directories and Paths

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)

Next Steps

Now that you've installed VerneMQ, check out .

Accepting the VerneMQ EULA
How to configure VerneMQ