sql-server-linux-setup-tools.md

title	Install SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux - SQL Server vNext CTP1 | Microsoft Docs
description	Describes how to install SQL Server vNext CTP1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2.
author	rothja
ms.author	jroth
manager	jhubbard
ms.date	11/15/2016
ms.topic	article
ms.prod	sql-linux
ms.technology	database-engine
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Install SQL Server tools on Linux

The following steps install the command-line tools, Microsoft ODBC drivers, and their dependencies. The mssql-tools package contains:

• sqlcmd: Command-line query utility.
• bcp: Bulk import-export utility.

Install the tools for your platform.

• RHEL
• Ubuntu

Install tools on RHEL

1. Enter superuser mode.

   sudo su
   

2. Download the Microsoft Red Hat repository configuration file.

   curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/prod.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/msprod.repo

3. Exit superuser mode.

   exit

4. Run the following commands to install mssql-tools.

   sudo yum install mssql-tools

Install tools on Ubuntu

1. Enter superuser mode.

   sudo su

2. Import the public repository GPG keys:

   curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add -

3. Register the Microsoft Ubuntu repository:

   curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/msprod.list

4. Exit superuser mode:

   exit

5. Update the sources list and run the installation command:

   sudo apt-get update 
   sudo apt-get install mssql-tools

Next steps

After installation, connect to the SQL Server instance to create and manage databases. To get started, see Connect and query SQL Server on Linux.