Microsoft surprised the IT world with the announcement about the new MS SQL Server that is able to run on Linux. In this post I’ll show hot to install Sql Server on Debian 8 Jessie.

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install curl apt-transport-https sudo 

Add to /etc/apt/sources.list this backports

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

After that you’ll be able to install jessie-backports openssl

apt-get install -t jessie-backports openssl

Finally run the following commands to install SQL Server

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/mssql-server.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-server.list
apt-get install mssql-server

After the package installation finishes, run the configuration script and follow the prompts

# /opt/mssql/bin/sqlservr-setup
Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) Setup

You can abort setup at anytime by pressing Ctrl-C. Start this program
with the --help option for information about running it in unattended
mode.

Please enter a password for the system administrator (SA) account: 
Please confirm the password for the system administrator (SA) account: 

Setting system administrator (SA) account password...

Do you wish to start the SQL Server service now? [y/n]: y
Do you wish to enable SQL Server to start on boot? [y/n]: y
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mssql-server.service to /lib/systemd/system/mssql-server.service.
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mssql-server-telemetry.service to /lib/systemd/system/mssql-server-telemetry.service.

Setup completed successfully.

You’ll find in /var/opt/mssql all db related files, config etc etc

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