How To Install freetds-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds-devel on CentOS 8.
What is freetds-devel
This package contains the header files and development libraries for freetds. If you like to develop programs using freetds, you will need to install freetds-devel.
We can use yum or dnf to install freetds-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freetds-devel.
Install freetds-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 freetds-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freetds-devel
Install freetds-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 freetds-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freetds-devel
How To Uninstall freetds-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the freetds-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freetds-devel
freetds-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/bkpublic.h
/usr/include/cspublic.h
/usr/include/cstypes.h
/usr/include/ctpublic.h
/usr/include/odbcss.h
/usr/include/sqldb.h
/usr/include/sqlfront.h
/usr/include/sybdb.h
/usr/include/syberror.h
/usr/include/sybfront.h
/usr/include/tds_sysdep_public.h
/usr/include/tds_sysdep_public_64.h
/usr/lib64/libct.so
/usr/lib64/libsybdb.so
/usr/share/doc/freetds-devel
/usr/share/doc/freetds-devel/samples
/usr/share/doc/freetds-devel/samples/debug.c
/usr/share/doc/freetds-devel/samples/dyntest.c
/usr/share/doc/freetds-devel/samples/test.php
/usr/share/doc/freetds-devel/samples/test.pl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.