How To Install libiodbc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiodbc.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libiodbc.i686 is iODBC Driver Manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiodbc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libiodbc.i686`

The iODBC Driver Manager is a free implementation of the SAG CLI and ODBC compliant driver manager which allows developers to write ODBC compliant applications that can connect to various databases using appropriate backend drivers.

We can use yum to install libiodbc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libiodbc.i686.

Install libiodbc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libiodbc.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libiodbc.i686

How To Uninstall libiodbc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libiodbc.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libiodbc.i686

libiodbc.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/iodbctest
/usr/bin/iodbctestw
/usr/lib/libiodbc.so.2
/usr/lib/libiodbc.so.2.1.19
/usr/lib/libiodbcinst.so.2
/usr/lib/libiodbcinst.so.2.1.19
/usr/share/doc/libiodbc-3.52.7
/usr/share/doc/libiodbc-3.52.7/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libiodbc-3.52.7/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libiodbc-3.52.7/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libiodbc-3.52.7/LICENSE.BSD
/usr/share/doc/libiodbc-3.52.7/LICENSE.LGPL
/usr/share/doc/libiodbc-3.52.7/README
/usr/share/doc/libiodbc-3.52.7/odbc.ini.sample
/usr/share/doc/libiodbc-3.52.7/odbcinst.ini.sample
/usr/share/man/man1/iodbctest.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/iodbctestw.1.gz

References

libiodbc.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiodbc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.