Install rabbitmqadmin on Ubuntu 24.04

The rabbitmqadmin is a command line tool for managing a RabbitMQ message broker. It is a lightweight utility that interacts with the RabbitMQ HTTP API, allowing users to manage exchanges, queues, bindings, users, virtual hosts, and other resources. This tutorial demonstrates how to install rabbitmqadmin on Ubuntu 24.04.

Prepare environment

Make sure you have installed RabbitMQ.

Install rabbitmqadmin

Get the latest rabbitmqadmin version from its GitHub repository and store it in a variable:

RABBITMQADMIN_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/rabbitmq/rabbitmqadmin-ng/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[0-9.]+')

Download executable to /usr/local/bin directory:

sudo wget -qO /usr/local/bin/rabbitmqadmin https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmqadmin-ng/releases/latest/download/rabbitmqadmin-$RABBITMQADMIN_VERSION-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Set execute permission:

sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/rabbitmqadmin

Testing rabbitmqadmin

To verify if the rabbitmqadmin command can connect to the RabbitMQ HTTP API, display essential information using:

rabbitmqadmin show overview

The part of the output:

┌──────────────────────┬────────────────────┐
│ Overview                                  │
├──────────────────────┼────────────────────┤
│ key                  │ value              │
├──────────────────────┼────────────────────┤
│ Product name         │ RabbitMQ           │
├──────────────────────┼────────────────────┤
│ Product version      │ 3.13.7             │
├──────────────────────┼────────────────────┤
│ RabbitMQ version     │ 3.13.7             │
├──────────────────────┼────────────────────┤
│ Erlang version       │ 26.2.5.9           │
├──────────────────────┼────────────────────┤
...

Uninstall rabbitmqadmin

To uninstall rabbitmqadmin, delete the associated file:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/rabbitmqadmin