How To Install odbc-mdbtools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install odbc-mdbtools
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is odbc-mdbtools
odbc-mdbtools is:
This is the software driver to access JET / MS Access database (MDB) files through ODBC. This also contains the installation interface for unixodbc.
There are three methods to install odbc-mdbtools
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install odbc-mdbtools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install odbc-mdbtools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install odbc-mdbtools
Install odbc-mdbtools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install odbc-mdbtools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install odbc-mdbtools
Install odbc-mdbtools Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install odbc-mdbtools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install odbc-mdbtools
How To Uninstall odbc-mdbtools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the odbc-mdbtools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove odbc-mdbtools
Uninstall odbc-mdbtools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall odbc-mdbtools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove odbc-mdbtools
Remove odbc-mdbtools Configurations and Data
To remove odbc-mdbtools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge odbc-mdbtools
Remove odbc-mdbtools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove odbc-mdbtools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge odbc-mdbtools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install odbc-mdbtools
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.