How To Install freetds on Fedora 34
freetds is Implementation of the TDS (Tabular DataStream) protocol
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds on Fedora 34.
What is freetds
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.
We can use yum or dnf to install freetds on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freetds.
Install freetds on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install freetds using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freetds
Install freetds on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install freetds using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freetds
How To Uninstall freetds on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the freetds package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freetds
freetds Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/bsqldb
/usr/bin/bsqlodbc
/usr/bin/datacopy
/usr/bin/defncopy
/usr/bin/fisql
/usr/bin/freebcp
/usr/bin/osql
/usr/bin/tdspool
/usr/bin/tsql
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/6faeec37c298b0f26e6446e4442eea56c6df67
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/1238f9ba8b1d10a25e0255f6bd9dc8cbd46b58
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/194762e0057fca7e029ed4b68c751dad60c292
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/83f0e55c6a730eeb6ad3cecb3789d133b278e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/1f6c7248d2240df1e9057f0fea6380a9d956d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/895cafc43f66a3aa65d4caae3a64097fe3d23e
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/cf536c9e0fcb2767d546c586dbddf87d4a6ca2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/da3d2a6d0dd0231da01c52c6e242bd13d05c48
/usr/share/doc/freetds
/usr/share/doc/freetds/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/freetds/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/freetds/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/freetds/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/freetds/README
/usr/share/doc/freetds/TODO
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/1.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/10.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/2.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/3.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/4.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/5.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/6.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/7.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/8.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/9.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/caution.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/important.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/note.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/tip.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/warning.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/tds.html
/usr/share/doc/freetds/tds_ssl.html
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/about.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/aboutunicode.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/acknowledgments.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/advocacy.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/ambition.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/apireference.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/appendmode.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/askingforhelp.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/build.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/choosingtdsprotocol.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/config.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/configs.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/confirminstall.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/contrib.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/contributors.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/ctlib.api.summary.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/dblib.api.summary.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/domains.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/dsnless.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/envvar.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/freetdsconf.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/freetdshistory.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-1.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-10.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-11.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-2.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-3.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-4.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-5.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-6.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-7.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-8.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-9.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/help.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/index.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/index.html
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/install.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/interfacesfile.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/interfacesformat.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/interfaceslocation.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/interfacespurpose.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/iso8859.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/isolatecause.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/kerberos.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/light.taper.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/linker.conclusion.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/linker.how.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/linker.library.check.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/locales.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/localization.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/logging.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/mailinglist.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/name.lookup.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/odbc.api.summary.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/odbcconnattr.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/odbcdiagnose.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/odbcinionly.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/odbcombo.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/osissues.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/packages.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/pagenodata.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/perl.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/php.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/portoverride.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/prepodbc.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/programming.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/projects.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/python.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/qt.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/rtl.define.library.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/rtl.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/samplecode.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/seemtooslow.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/serverthere.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/software.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/stunnel.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/tdshistory.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/tdspool.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/troubleshooting.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/unicode.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/unicodefreetds.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/unicodegoodbad.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/unicodeutf.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/uodbc.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/uothread.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/usefreetds.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/userguide.css
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/what.htm
/usr/share/man/man1/bsqldb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/bsqlodbc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/datacopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/defncopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fisql.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freebcp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/osql.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tsql.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
