Re: [ODBC] ODBC constructs

On 5/21/2013 3:49 PM, Dev Kumkar wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:17 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com
> <mailto:pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> what specific non-Windows operating system distribution are you
> using? ODBC stuff is packaged for most of them. for instance,
> the yum.postgresql.org <http://yum.postgresql.org> repository has
> it packaged as postgresql92-odbc, available for a variety of
> redhat/fedora/centos style systems, I'm sure the debian/ubuntu apt
> repositories have similar.
>
>
> Currently looking for RHEL 5. Thanks! yes looked into my machine and
> "yum list postgres*" listed "postgresql91-odbc.x86_64"
> But when trying to install, then found the base ODBC library itself
> are missing and those needs to be configured first on test machine.
>
> Error: Missing Dependency: libodbc.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package
> postgresql91-odbc-09.00.0310-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64 (pgdg91)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libodbcinst.so.1()(64bit) is needed by
> package postgresql91-odbc-09.00.0310-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64 (pgdg91)

that should have come from the base repository...

# yum provides libodbc.so.1
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unixODBC-libs-2.2.11-10.el5.i386 : The shared libraries required by
programs that use unixODBC
Repo : base
Matched from:
Other : libodbc.so.1

unixODBC-libs-2.2.11-10.el5.i386 : The shared libraries required by
programs that use unixODBC
Repo : installed
Matched from:
Other : Provides-match: libodbc.so.1

(on a 32bit EL5 system)

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