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title: Install MQTT Explorer on Debian using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of MQTT Explorer for on Debian - A comprehensive
  and easy to use MQTT Client
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/mqtt-explorer/debian
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# Install MQTT Explorer on **Debian**

# MQTT Explorer

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* [Thomas Nordquist (thomasnordquist)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/thomasnordquist "View all snaps from Thomas Nordquist (thomasnordquist)")
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* [Devices and IoT](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=devices-and-iot)

[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/mqtt-explorer/debian#install)

#### A comprehensive and easy to use MQTT Client

Explore your message queues, delete retained topics, see what is happening on your broker.

* Visualize topics and topic activity
* Delete retained topics
* Search/filter topics
* Delete topic recursively
* Publish topics
* Plot numeric topics
* Keep a history of each topic

See the whole picture of your message queue. The perfect tool to integrate new services, IoT devices in your network. This application subscribes to all topics on your MQTT-Server and displays your message queue hierarchy, allowing you to drill-down to the topics that are of interest.

### Package name

* mqtt-explorer

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### License

* CC-BY-ND-4.0

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### Last updated

* 11 May 2024 - latest/stable
* 15 May 2024 - latest/edge

This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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### Websites

* [mqtt-explorer.com](https://mqtt-explorer.com "https://mqtt-explorer.com")

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## Enable snaps on Debian and install MQTT Explorer

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:

```
sudo snap install snapd
```

### Install MQTT Explorer

To install MQTT Explorer, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install mqtt-explorer
```

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