"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. To install the package is to copy the binaries to their appropriate run-time directories, copy the documentation to the doc directory, and maybe let the package manager know what's happened. That's generally considered part of the build process, 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.