How To Install freetds-libs on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds-libs on CentOS 7. freetds-libs is Libraries for freetds

Introduction

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

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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freetds-libs.

Install freetds-libs 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-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freetds-libs

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

sudo dnf -y install freetds-libs

How To Uninstall freetds-libs on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove freetds-libs

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Summary

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