How To Install firebird-examples on CentOS 8

firebird-examples is Examples for Firebird SQL server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird-examples on CentOS 8.

What is `firebird-examples`

Examples 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-examples on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firebird-examples.

Install firebird-examples 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-examples using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install firebird-examples

Install firebird-examples 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-examples using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install firebird-examples

How To Uninstall firebird-examples on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the firebird-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove firebird-examples

firebird-examples Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/CMakeLists.txt
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/README
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api1.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api10.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api11.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api12.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api13.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api14.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api15.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api16.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api16t.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api2.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api3.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api4.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api5.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api6.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api7.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api8.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api9.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api9f.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api9f.def
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api9f.sql
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/api9fdrop.sql
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/apifull.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/example.def
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/winevent.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/winevent.def
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/api/winevent.rc
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/dbcrypt
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/dbcrypt/CryptApplication.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/dbcrypt/CryptKeyHolder.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/dbcrypt/DbCrypt.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/dbcrypt/ReadMe.txt
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/dbcrypt/cryptDb.pas
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/dbcrypt/fbSampleDbCrypt.conf
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/dbcrypt/fbSampleKeyHolder.conf
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/ExtAuth.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/TcWrapper.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/TcWrapper.h
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/keygen.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/msvc
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/msvc/ExtAuth_MSVC14.sln
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/msvc/ExtAuth_MSVC14.vcxproj
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/msvc/ExtAuth_MSVC14.vcxproj.filters
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/msvc/ExtAuth_MSVC15.sln
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/msvc/ExtAuth_MSVC15.vcxproj
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/msvc/ExtAuth_MSVC15.vcxproj.filters
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/msvc/KeyGen_MSVC14.vcxproj
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/msvc/KeyGen_MSVC14.vcxproj.filters
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/msvc/KeyGen_MSVC15.vcxproj
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/extauth/msvc/KeyGen_MSVC15.vcxproj.filters
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/functions.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/include
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/include/align.h
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/include/example.h
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/01.create.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/01.create.pas
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/02.update.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/03.select.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/04.print_table.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/05.user_metadata.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/06.fb_message.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/07.blob.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/08.events.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/09.service.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/10.backup.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/11.batch.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/12.batch_isc.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/13.null_pk.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/interfaces/ifaceExamples.h
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/package
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/package/fbout-body.sql
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/package/fbout-header.sql
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/package/fbout-test.sql
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat1.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat10.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat11.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat12.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat12t.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat2.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat3.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat4.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat5.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat6.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat7.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat8.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/stat/stat9.e
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/udf
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/udf/udf.sql
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/udf/udflib.c
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/udf/udflib.def
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/udr
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/udr/Functions.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/udr/Procedures.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/udr/Triggers.cpp
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/udr/UdrCppExample.h
/usr/share/doc/firebird/sample/udr/Zones.cpp
/var/lib/firebird/data/employee.fdb

References

firebird-examples website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird-examples on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.