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freetds


Information about the package, freetds, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The freetds package is designed for, Implementation of the TDS (Tabular DataStream) protocol.


Package Name:

freetds

Summary:

Implementation of the TDS (Tabular DataStream) protocol

Description:

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.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.91

Release:

2.el6

Size:

568 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for freetds


Control the freetds package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install freetds

This command will install freetds on the server.

yum remove freetds

This command will un-install freetds on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove freetds, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove freetds

This command will un-install freetds on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove freetds when using the -y flag.

yum update freetds

This command will update freetds to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove freetds, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update freetds

This command will update freetds to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove freetds when using the -y flag.

yum info freetds

This command will show you core information about the freetds package.

yum deplist freetds

This command will show you the dependencies for freetds. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update freetds

This command will check if there is an update waiting on freetds. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.