Beginners • Re: unable to run mosquitto

@DS256 you poined to the right direction . Thank you . In the mentioned post there is workaround to downgrade to ver 1.6 of mosquitto. That worked . Thank you

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install mosquitto=1.6.4-0mosquitto1~buster1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libev4 libuv1 libwebsockets8
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libev4 libuv1 libwebsockets8
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
mosquitto
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 285 kB/382 kB of archives.
After this operation, 287 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://espejito.fder.edu.uy/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf libev4 armhf 1:4.25-1 [34.5 kB]
Get:3 https://repo.mosquitto.org/debian buster/main armhf mosquitto armhf 1.6.4-0mosquitto1~buster1 [165 kB]
Get:2 http://espejito.fder.edu.uy/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf libwebsockets8 armhf 2.0.3-3 [85.6 kB]
Fetched 285 kB in 5s (52.9 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package libev4:armhf.
(Reading database ... 153258 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libev4_1%3a4.25-1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libev4:armhf (1:4.25-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libuv1:armhf.
Preparing to unpack .../libuv1_1.24.1-1+deb10u1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libuv1:armhf (1.24.1-1+deb10u1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libwebsockets8:armhf.
Preparing to unpack .../libwebsockets8_2.0.3-3_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libwebsockets8:armhf (2.0.3-3) ...
dpkg: warning: downgrading mosquitto from 2.0.12-0mosquitto1~buster1 to 1.6.4-0mosquitto1~buster1
Preparing to unpack .../mosquitto_1.6.4-0mosquitto1~buster1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking mosquitto (1.6.4-0mosquitto1~buster1) over (2.0.12-0mosquitto1~buster1) ...
Setting up libev4:armhf (1:4.25-1) ...
Setting up libuv1:armhf (1.24.1-1+deb10u1) ...
Setting up libwebsockets8:armhf (2.0.3-3) ...
Setting up mosquitto (1.6.4-0mosquitto1~buster1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/logrotate.d/mosquitto ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf ...
Processing triggers for systemd (241-7~deb10u9+rpi1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2+deb10u1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-10+rpi1+deb10u4) ...

Statistics: Posted by zenonmb — Wed Oct 22, 2025 8:50 pm

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