How To Install firebird on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on Rocky Linux 8. firebird is SQL relational database management system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firebird.

Install firebird on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the firebird package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove firebird

firebird Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/firebird
/etc/firebird/databases.conf
/etc/firebird/fbtrace.conf
/etc/firebird/firebird.conf
/etc/firebird/plugins.conf
/etc/firebird/replication.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/firebird
/run/firebird
/run/firebird/fb_guard
/usr/bin/fbtracemgr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/3e45e6ba502bf4c13f17dc6bab174c18456f06
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/f2e0bf9876dbb3f0f4252b661ce4952fe542d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/2fa868fd69d903f13a78ff3b5d1ed359b369ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/ebde2c86310590c785830ab8b42b55527815cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/679f2b2c5f0313c2166c269e353353372e69dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/b56e735d382e083eb303371a401573123bd4fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/ff09994a90d71a1b8220b0a34f1b4be3fcad62
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/3b42519a50393934c03f0615705a6b0a230c80
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/9cc56b08355ff043e60755a4025add301a1ed1
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/0cdb64c6f0c870ee2f0bf725609e4b39c9725a
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/2e2b21ad3e2d50530bc3d808086714fd4d7ad5
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/15573d478baa0bd1072826642b51ca3d0a455e
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/4d65ae75c2e901e54df0c69d3d8b74276d08d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/3f4cb751e722f4f086703910235349e578339f
/usr/lib/systemd/system/firebird.service
/usr/lib64/firebird
/usr/lib64/firebird/intl
/usr/lib64/firebird/intl/fbintl
/usr/lib64/firebird/intl/fbintl.conf
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libChaCha.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libEngine13.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libLegacy_Auth.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libLegacy_UserManager.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libSrp.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libfbtrace.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libudr_engine.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr/libudf_compat.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr/libudrcpp_example.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr/udf_compat.sql
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr_engine.conf
/usr/sbin/fb_lock_print
/usr/sbin/fbguard
/usr/sbin/firebird
/usr/share/doc/firebird/IDPLicense.txt
/usr/share/doc/firebird/IPLicense.txt
/usr/share/doc/firebird/README.Fedora
/usr/share/firebird
/var/lib/firebird
/var/lib/firebird/data
/var/lib/firebird/secdb
/var/lib/firebird/secdb/security4.fdb
/var/lib/firebird/system
/var/lib/firebird/system/firebird.msg
/var/lib/firebird/system/help.fdb
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata/metaZones.res
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata/timezoneTypes.res
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata/windowsZones.res
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata/zoneinfo64.res
/var/log/firebird
/var/log/firebird/firebird.log

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.