Hello The MS open the source to let people download source. You may ask where to download ? Ask google yourself. Now here we begin: Unlikely other way, I use the rpm to install. After finish it, we need to do execute /opt/mssql/bin/sqlservr -setup And we can check the status # systemctl status mssql-server -l What ? You want to ask why not " service status mssql-server " ? Sorry , our linux is Oracle linux 7.3 . Red hat 7.3 also too.