The following installation procedure is the same for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v12 SP2 (SLES), which is officially supported by the Microsoft Corporation. My example is based on openSUSE Leap 42.2.
Another remark is that the installation is based on the SQL Server vNext CTP 1.3 RC1 set of versions, which were actual at the time of writing this book. The installation procedure is command line-based. It means that you will be required to use bash. openSUSE and Kubuntu use the same bash client, Konsole.
If you want to start installation on openSUSE or SLES, you will need minimum 3.25GB of memory to run the SQL Server on Linux. The file system must be XFS or EXT4.
Following are the steps to install SQL Server on Linux on openSUSE:
- First of all, you will need to add the mssql-server package to your distribution with the following two...
