How To Install firebird on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on AlmaLinux 8.
What is firebird
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 on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firebird.
Install firebird on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install firebird using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install firebird
Install firebird on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install firebird using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install firebird
How To Uninstall firebird on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the firebird package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove firebird
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
