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