How To Install freetds-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds-devel on CentOS 7. freetds-devel is Header files and development libraries for freetds

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds-devel on CentOS 7.

What is freetds-devel

This package contains the header files and development libraries for freetds. If you like to develop programs using freetds, you will need to install freetds-devel.

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

Install freetds-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install freetds-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freetds-devel

Install freetds-devel 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 freetds-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freetds-devel

How To Uninstall freetds-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the freetds-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove freetds-devel

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.