How To Install freetds-libs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds-libs on CentOS 8.
What is freetds-libs
FreeTDS is a project to document and implement the TDS (Tabular DataStream) protocol. TDS is used by Sybase(TM) and Microsoft(TM) for client to database server communications. FreeTDS includes call level interfaces for DB-Lib, CT-Lib, and ODBC. This package contains the libraries for freetds.
We can use yum or dnf to install freetds-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freetds-libs.
Install freetds-libs 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-libs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freetds-libs
Install freetds-libs 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-libs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freetds-libs
How To Uninstall freetds-libs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the freetds-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freetds-libs
freetds-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/freetds.conf
/etc/locales.conf
/etc/pool.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/28ff6ee9abe599c1789aa0ef3a47c1c7323aa7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/639216a8fed2abedeea53fefe226b438e6b5f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/6a1ecd7a4cd4ced238effca2299926d2b52ec6
/usr/lib64/libct.so.4
/usr/lib64/libct.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib64/libsybdb.so.5
/usr/lib64/libsybdb.so.5.1.0
/usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so
/usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc/odbc.ini
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc/odbctest.php
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc/odbctest.pl
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc/unixodbc.freetds.driver.template-64
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc/unixodbc.install.sh
/usr/share/doc/freetds-libs/samples-odbc/unixodbc.jdbc.datasource.template
/usr/share/man/man5/freetds.conf.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.