How To Install freetds-libs on CentOS 7
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.
