Install SQL Server Agent on Ubuntu

Today I will show you, you will see that installation is pretty simple and fast, it cointains only three or four commands. SQL Server Agent is responsible for scheduled jobs. I have already installed SQL Server 2017 CU4.

"First of all, you have to connect as root user on your Linux machine!"

Run following comands:

1) First command will download packages from repositories:

2) Now, we will provide installation of SQL Server Agent on Ubuntu:

NOTE:

If you get following error message, you have probably new version of SQL Server CU4 and above, mssql-server-agent is included in installation SQL Server, but SQL Server Agent service is disable by deafult.

Run the following command for ENABLE SQL Server Agent:

Last step is restart of SQL Server service, run following comand:

Hope, I saved your time!