How To Install freetds on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds on Rocky Linux 8. freetds is Implementation of the TDS (Tabular DataStream) protocol

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freetds.

Install freetds on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove freetds

freetds Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/bsqldb
/usr/bin/bsqlodbc
/usr/bin/datacopy
/usr/bin/defncopy
/usr/bin/fisql
/usr/bin/freebcp
/usr/bin/osql
/usr/bin/tdspool
/usr/bin/tsql
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/cd55aa5dd57158a51e5bbe7522584ef0ca509d
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/b37364bac83797c982b08ff4c93d50d3964984
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/02add11d778300c062cf820a307de864f07e93
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/e443151716a28c83888cf5f3ad00f08295b418
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/565171c23cd270bb34a3ce8216646c43408fb1
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/233029049176fd21d4722f0bace9a4b29b9bfa
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/759802cd23d95453129205a679224c7d213622
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/61ecd03e2759384a6c66dbf1dbaff8b83382a4
/usr/share/doc/freetds
/usr/share/doc/freetds/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/freetds/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/freetds/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/freetds/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/freetds/README
/usr/share/doc/freetds/TODO
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/1.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/10.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/2.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/3.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/4.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/5.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/6.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/7.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/8.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/callouts/9.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/caution.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/important.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/note.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/tip.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/images/warning.gif
/usr/share/doc/freetds/tds.html
/usr/share/doc/freetds/tds_ssl.html
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/about.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/aboutunicode.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/acknowledgments.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/advocacy.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/ambition.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/apireference.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/appendmode.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/askingforhelp.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/build.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/choosingtdsprotocol.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/config.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/configs.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/confirminstall.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/contrib.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/contributors.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/ctlib.api.summary.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/dblib.api.summary.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/domains.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/dsnless.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/envvar.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/freetdsconf.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/freetdshistory.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-1.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-10.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-11.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-2.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-3.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-4.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-5.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-6.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-7.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-8.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl-9.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/gfdl.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/help.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/index.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/index.html
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/install.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/interfacesfile.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/interfacesformat.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/interfaceslocation.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/interfacespurpose.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/iso8859.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/isolatecause.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/kerberos.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/light.taper.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/linker.conclusion.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/linker.how.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/linker.library.check.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/locales.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/localization.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/logging.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/mailinglist.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/name.lookup.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/odbc.api.summary.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/odbcconnattr.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/odbcdiagnose.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/odbcinionly.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/odbcombo.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/osissues.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/packages.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/pagenodata.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/perl.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/php.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/portoverride.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/prepodbc.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/programming.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/projects.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/python.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/qt.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/rtl.define.library.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/rtl.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/samplecode.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/seemtooslow.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/serverthere.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/software.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/stunnel.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/tdshistory.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/tdspool.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/troubleshooting.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/unicode.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/unicodefreetds.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/unicodegoodbad.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/unicodeutf.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/uodbc.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/uothread.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/usefreetds.htm
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/userguide.css
/usr/share/doc/freetds/userguide/what.htm
/usr/share/man/man1/bsqldb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/bsqlodbc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/datacopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/defncopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fisql.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freebcp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/osql.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tsql.1.gz

References

freetds website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freetds on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.