How To Install firebird-utils on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird-utils on CentOS 8.
What is firebird-utils
Firebird SQL user utilities. 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-utils on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firebird-utils.
Install firebird-utils 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-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install firebird-utils
Install firebird-utils 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-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install firebird-utils
How To Uninstall firebird-utils on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the firebird-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove firebird-utils
firebird-utils Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/fbsvcmgr
/usr/bin/gbak
/usr/bin/gfix
/usr/bin/gpre
/usr/bin/gsec
/usr/bin/gsplit
/usr/bin/gstat-fb
/usr/bin/isql-fb
/usr/bin/nbackup
/usr/bin/qli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/d92c4e9f6fd77c3121d0cf6a19f08d9dc96704
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/35597aff516862c87f7a064c9757afa5a85042
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/6b914cc9a97e92bcc7283ec221f86f7301be8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/7fe7a77706b08b4a78fa67c4eaf651ef3ca07a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/546400323ba7281d93b7ecebc1f0f220d8fd13
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/372702b397644de45f8dedcf5ab54452f8f792
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/5e5a26ec6e1b2c2c2686b748cca074a192c04a
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/b39dc7a9fb76f2f6d004fcbdff7f6b398710d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/f7f1eb7447e399fe8f48a34d81f8230ec79b36
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/f928e0072f2f89c91f09cb91104ad820c718a1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird-utils on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.