How To Install freetds on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds on AlmaLinux 8.
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 AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freetds.
Install freetds 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 freetds using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freetds
Install freetds 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 freetds using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freetds
How To Uninstall freetds on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the freetds package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freetds
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
