How To Install firebird-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird-devel on CentOS 8.
What is firebird-devel
This package is needed for development of client applications and user defined functions (UDF) for Firebird SQL server. 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-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firebird-devel.
Install firebird-devel 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-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install firebird-devel
Install firebird-devel 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-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install firebird-devel
How To Uninstall firebird-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the firebird-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove firebird-devel
firebird-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/firebird
/usr/include/firebird/Firebird.pas
/usr/include/firebird/IdlFbInterfaces.h
/usr/include/firebird/Interface.h
/usr/include/firebird/Message.h
/usr/include/firebird/TimeZones.h
/usr/include/firebird/UdrCppEngine.h
/usr/include/firebird/impl
/usr/include/firebird/impl/blr.h
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/arithmetic
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/arithmetic/dec.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/arithmetic/inc.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/cat.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/config
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/config/config.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/control
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/control/expr_if.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/control/expr_iif.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/control/if.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/control/iif.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/debug
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/debug/error.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/detail
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/detail/auto_rec.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/detail/dmc
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/detail/dmc/auto_rec.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/facilities
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/facilities/empty.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/logical
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/logical/bool.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/repetition
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/repetition/detail
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/repetition/detail/dmc
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/repetition/detail/dmc/for.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/repetition/detail/edg
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/repetition/detail/edg/for.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/repetition/detail/for.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/repetition/detail/msvc
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/repetition/detail/msvc/for.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/repetition/for.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/seq
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/seq/elem.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/seq/for_each_i.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/seq/seq.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/seq/size.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/tuple
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/tuple/eat.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/tuple/elem.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/boost/preprocessor/tuple/rem.hpp
/usr/include/firebird/impl/consts_pub.h
/usr/include/firebird/impl/dsc_pub.h
/usr/include/firebird/impl/inf_pub.h
/usr/include/firebird/impl/sqlda_pub.h
/usr/include/firebird/impl/types_pub.h
/usr/include/ib_util.h
/usr/include/ibase.h
/usr/include/iberror.h
/usr/lib64/fb_config
/usr/sbin/fb_config
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.