How To Install firebird on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on CentOS 8.
What is firebird
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.
We can use yum or dnf to install firebird on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firebird.
Install firebird on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install firebird using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install firebird
Install firebird on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install firebird using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install firebird
How To Uninstall firebird on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the firebird package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove firebird
firebird Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/firebird
/etc/firebird/databases.conf
/etc/firebird/fbtrace.conf
/etc/firebird/firebird.conf
/etc/firebird/plugins.conf
/etc/firebird/replication.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/firebird
/run/firebird
/run/firebird/fb_guard
/usr/bin/fbtracemgr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/3e45e6ba502bf4c13f17dc6bab174c18456f06
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/f2e0bf9876dbb3f0f4252b661ce4952fe542d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/2fa868fd69d903f13a78ff3b5d1ed359b369ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/ebde2c86310590c785830ab8b42b55527815cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/679f2b2c5f0313c2166c269e353353372e69dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/b56e735d382e083eb303371a401573123bd4fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/ff09994a90d71a1b8220b0a34f1b4be3fcad62
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/3b42519a50393934c03f0615705a6b0a230c80
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/9cc56b08355ff043e60755a4025add301a1ed1
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/0cdb64c6f0c870ee2f0bf725609e4b39c9725a
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/2e2b21ad3e2d50530bc3d808086714fd4d7ad5
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/15573d478baa0bd1072826642b51ca3d0a455e
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/4d65ae75c2e901e54df0c69d3d8b74276d08d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/3f4cb751e722f4f086703910235349e578339f
/usr/lib/systemd/system/firebird.service
/usr/lib64/firebird
/usr/lib64/firebird/intl
/usr/lib64/firebird/intl/fbintl
/usr/lib64/firebird/intl/fbintl.conf
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libChaCha.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libEngine13.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libLegacy_Auth.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libLegacy_UserManager.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libSrp.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libfbtrace.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libudr_engine.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr/libudf_compat.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr/libudrcpp_example.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr/udf_compat.sql
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr_engine.conf
/usr/sbin/fb_lock_print
/usr/sbin/fbguard
/usr/sbin/firebird
/usr/share/doc/firebird/IDPLicense.txt
/usr/share/doc/firebird/IPLicense.txt
/usr/share/doc/firebird/README.Fedora
/usr/share/firebird
/var/lib/firebird
/var/lib/firebird/data
/var/lib/firebird/secdb
/var/lib/firebird/secdb/security4.fdb
/var/lib/firebird/system
/var/lib/firebird/system/firebird.msg
/var/lib/firebird/system/help.fdb
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata/metaZones.res
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata/timezoneTypes.res
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata/windowsZones.res
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata/zoneinfo64.res
/var/log/firebird
/var/log/firebird/firebird.log
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.