How To Install php-mdb2 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install php-mdb2 on Debian 9.
What is php-mdb2
php-mdb2 is:
PEAR MDB2 is a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database abstraction layers.
It provides a common API for all supported RDBMS. The main difference to most other DB abstraction packages is that MDB2 goes much further to ensure portability. MDB2 provides most of its many features optionally that can be used to construct portable SQL statements:
- Object-Oriented API
- A DSN (data source name) or array format for specifying database servers
- Datatype abstraction and on demand datatype conversion
- Various optional fetch modes to fix portability issues
- Portable error codes
- Sequential and non sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching
- Ability to make buffered and unbuffered queries
- Ordered array and associative array for the fetched rows
- Prepare/execute (bind) named and unnamed placeholder emulation
- Sequence/autoincrement emulation
- Replace emulation
- Limited sub select emulation
- Row limit emulation
- Transactions/savepoint support
- Large Object support
- Index/Unique Key/Primary Key support
- Pattern matching abstraction
- Module framework to load advanced functionality on demand
- Ability to read the information schema
- RDBMS management methods (creating, dropping, altering)
- Reverse engineering schemas from an existing database
- SQL function call abstraction
- Full integration into the PEAR Framework
- PHPDoc API documentation
There are three methods to install php-mdb2 on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install php-mdb2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install php-mdb2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install php-mdb2
Install php-mdb2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install php-mdb2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install php-mdb2
Install php-mdb2 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install php-mdb2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install php-mdb2
How To Uninstall php-mdb2 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the php-mdb2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove php-mdb2
Uninstall php-mdb2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall php-mdb2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove php-mdb2
Remove php-mdb2 Configurations and Data
To remove php-mdb2 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge php-mdb2
Remove php-mdb2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove php-mdb2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge php-mdb2
Dependencies
php-mdb2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install php-mdb2 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.