Not able to install MSSQL 2019 DATABASE on linux 7.8 (`GLIBC_2.27' not found )

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Hello Team,

Microsoft Learn says MSSQL 2019 can be installed on RHEL 7.3 - 7.8, or 8.0 - 8.2 machine with at least 2 GB of memory.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/quickstart-install-connect-red-hat?view=sql-server-ver15

Now after having and EC2 instance ready with RHEL 7.8 while trying to install mssql server I am getting below error. After researching a lot I couldn't find any suitable solution. One solution says we can't upgrade this GLIBC so better to install on RHEL 8 and even we can inserver upgrade from RHEL 7.8 to 8+.

Can you please let us know how to deal with this issue. If solution is to go with version 8 can you please update the docs.

/opt/mssql/bin/sqlservr: /lib64/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /opt/mssql/bin/sqlservr) /opt/mssql/bin/sqlservr: /lib64/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.18' not found (required by /opt/mssql/bin/../lib/libc++abi.so.1)

Awaiting for quick response. Thank You!!

Answer 1

Hi @Mj Taseen ,

In MS official document , the example commands for SQL Server 2019 points to the RHEL 8 repository. Please make sure you change the path to /rhel/7 instead of /rhel/8 in the example commands.

Such as:
sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/mssql-server.repo https://packages.microsoft.com/config/**rhel/7**/mssql-server-2019.repo

Please refer to the note part in MS document Install SQL Server on Red Hat.

Best regards,
Cathy

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Answer 2

Hello Cathy,

Yes, I had changed path is correct only i.e. /rhel/7. No issues with the path

Regards,
Md. Taseen

Answer 3

Thanks very much! This also helped installing the SQL server on my CentOS 8 with rhel/7 rather then rhel/8