How To Install firebird-utils on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird-utils on Rocky Linux 8. firebird-utils is Firebird SQL user utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird-utils on Rocky Linux 8.

What is firebird-utils

Firebird SQL user utilities. 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-utils on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firebird-utils.

Install firebird-utils 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-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install firebird-utils

Install firebird-utils 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-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install firebird-utils

How To Uninstall firebird-utils on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove firebird-utils

firebird-utils Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/fbsvcmgr
/usr/bin/gbak
/usr/bin/gfix
/usr/bin/gpre
/usr/bin/gsec
/usr/bin/gsplit
/usr/bin/gstat-fb
/usr/bin/isql-fb
/usr/bin/nbackup
/usr/bin/qli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/d92c4e9f6fd77c3121d0cf6a19f08d9dc96704
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/35597aff516862c87f7a064c9757afa5a85042
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/6b914cc9a97e92bcc7283ec221f86f7301be8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/7fe7a77706b08b4a78fa67c4eaf651ef3ca07a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/546400323ba7281d93b7ecebc1f0f220d8fd13
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/372702b397644de45f8dedcf5ab54452f8f792
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/5e5a26ec6e1b2c2c2686b748cca074a192c04a
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/b39dc7a9fb76f2f6d004fcbdff7f6b398710d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/f7f1eb7447e399fe8f48a34d81f8230ec79b36
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/f928e0072f2f89c91f09cb91104ad820c718a1

References

Summary

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