How To Install firebird on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on CentOS 7. firebird is SQL relational database management system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on CentOS 7.

What is firebird

This package contains common files between firebird-classic, firebird-superclassic and firebird-superserver. You will need this if you want to use either one.

We can use yum or dnf to install firebird on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firebird.

Install firebird on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install firebird using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install firebird

Install firebird on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install firebird using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install firebird

How To Uninstall firebird on CentOS 7

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 CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.