How To Install odbcinst on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install odbcinst
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is odbcinst
odbcinst is:
This package contains the odbcinst helper tool, which allows ODBC driver packages to install their own driver settings.
There are three methods to install odbcinst
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install odbcinst Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install odbcinst
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install odbcinst
Install odbcinst Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install odbcinst
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install odbcinst
Install odbcinst 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 odbcinst
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install odbcinst
How To Uninstall odbcinst on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the odbcinst
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove odbcinst
Uninstall odbcinst And Its Dependencies
To uninstall odbcinst
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove odbcinst
Remove odbcinst Configurations and Data
To remove odbcinst
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge odbcinst
Remove odbcinst configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove odbcinst
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge odbcinst
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install odbcinst
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.