Installing SQL Server 2017 offline on Linux

If your Linux cannot access the online repo, you can download the RPM package file directly. These packages are located in Microsoft's repository: https://packages.microsoft.com.

CU9 (2018 Year 7 months)

Cumulative update package 9 for SQL Server 2017. The SQL Server engine version is 14.0.3030.27.

Package	Package version	Downloads
Red Hat RPM Package	14.0.3030.27-1	Engine RPM Package High Availability RPM Package Full-text Search RPM Package SSIS Package

Installation steps:

1. Download the database engine package for your platform.

The package download link can be found in the Package details section of the release notes.

2. Place the downloaded package on your Linux server.

You can use SCP and so on.

3. Install the Database engine package.

sudo yum localinstall mssql-server_versionnumber.x86_64.rpm

Localinstall will automatically download installation dependencies from the available repo sources.

4. Resolve lost dependencies.

Manually detect dependencies by using the following command:

RPM-QPR mssql-server_versionnumber.x86_64.rpm

After you resolve the lost dependency, try to install the Mssql-server package again.

5. Complete the SQL Server configuration.

To complete the SQL Server configuration using mssql-conf:

sudo/opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf Setup

Installing SQL Server 2017 offline on Linux