Linux: Prerequisites

Pre-requesites:

1. A machine (VM, physical, etc) with Linux 

-Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.3 or 7.4)

-SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (v12 SP2)

-Ubuntu (16.04)

-Docker (1.8+)

2. The latest version of SQL Server 2017 downloaded you can get it here and copied onto your Linux machine.

3. A user to run the install (different than root)

System requirements

SQL Server 2017 has the following system requirements for Linux:

Memory	2 GB
File System	XFS or EXT4 (other file systems, such as BTRFS, are unsupported)
Disk space	6 GB
Processor speed	2 GHz
Processor cores	2 cores
Processor type	x64-compatible only

Ref for detailed on LINUX SQL Server:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-setup?view=sql-server-2017#system

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-overview?view=sql-server-2017

Installation of LINUX

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/quickstart-install-connect-red-hat?view=sql-server-2017

Packages:

Download latest packages:

mssql-server-14.XXXXX

mssql-server-agent-14.XX

mssql-server-fts.xx

mssql-server-ha.xx

mssql-server-is.xx

Link:

https://packages.microsoft.com/rhel/7/mssql-server-2017/

CUs for SQL Server 2017 on LINUX

Details on CU fixes and updates:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4466404/cumulative-update-13-for-sql-server-2017

Only Most recent CU (Which contains all fixes from previous CU ie. No need to install all CUs) that was released for SQL Server 2017 for LINUX is available at the Download Center At https://packages.microsoft.com/.

Click on rhel :