How To Install freetds-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds-libs on Rocky Linux 8. freetds-libs is Libraries for freetds

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is freetds-libs

FreeTDS is a project to document and implement the TDS (Tabular DataStream) protocol. TDS is used by Sybase(TM) and Microsoft(TM) for client to database server communications. FreeTDS includes call level interfaces for DB-Lib, CT-Lib, and ODBC. This package contains the libraries for freetds.

We can use yum or dnf to install freetds-libs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freetds-libs.

Install freetds-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install freetds-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freetds-libs

Install freetds-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install freetds-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freetds-libs

How To Uninstall freetds-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the freetds-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove freetds-libs

freetds-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/freetds.conf
/etc/locales.conf
/etc/pool.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/28ff6ee9abe599c1789aa0ef3a47c1c7323aa7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/639216a8fed2abedeea53fefe226b438e6b5f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/6a1ecd7a4cd4ced238effca2299926d2b52ec6
/usr/lib64/libct.so.4
/usr/lib64/libct.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib64/libsybdb.so.5
/usr/lib64/libsybdb.so.5.1.0
/usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so
/usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc/odbc.ini
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc/odbctest.php
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc/odbctest.pl
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc/unixodbc.freetds.driver.template-64
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc/unixodbc.install.sh
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc/unixodbc.jdbc.datasource.template
/usr/share/man/man5/freetds.conf.5.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds-libs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.