"Configuring" and "installing" don't have absolute, context-free definitions. In some circles, we install a product and then configure it. In the GNU world, we configure the package (generate the Makefiles), then we make install the package. In the case of a library package such as FreeTDS To install the package is to copy the files the application developer will use to their canonical locations: header files to include, libraries to the lib, documentation and man pages share. Install targets were specified during the build process as arguments to configure, covered in the last chapter.

For lack of a better term, this chapter describes installing the product. Put more specifically, once we're done with the package manager, we still have to tell FreeTDS about your database servers, and we still have to tell your client programs about FreeTDS.