How To Install unixODBC.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install unixODBC.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. unixODBC.i686 is A complete ODBC driver manager for Linux

Introduction

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

What is `unixODBC.i686`

Install unixODBC if you want to access databases through ODBC. You will also need the mysql-connector-odbc package if you want to access a MySQL database, and/or the postgresql-odbc package for PostgreSQL.

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

Install unixODBC.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 unixODBC.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unixODBC.i686

How To Uninstall unixODBC.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove unixODBC.i686

unixODBC.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/odbcinst.ini
/usr/bin/dltest
/usr/bin/isql
/usr/bin/iusql
/usr/bin/odbc_config
/usr/bin/odbcinst
/usr/lib/libesoobS.so.2
/usr/lib/libesoobS.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libmimerS.so.2
/usr/lib/libmimerS.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libnn.so.2
/usr/lib/libnn.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libodbc.so
/usr/lib/libodbc.so.2
/usr/lib/libodbc.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libodbccr.so.2
/usr/lib/libodbccr.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libodbcdrvcfg1S.so.2
/usr/lib/libodbcdrvcfg1S.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libodbcdrvcfg2S.so.2
/usr/lib/libodbcdrvcfg2S.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libodbcinst.so
/usr/lib/libodbcinst.so.2
/usr/lib/libodbcinst.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libodbcminiS.so.2
/usr/lib/libodbcminiS.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libodbcmyS.so
/usr/lib/libodbcmyS.so.2
/usr/lib/libodbcmyS.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libodbcnnS.so.2
/usr/lib/libodbcnnS.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libodbcpsqlS.so
/usr/lib/libodbcpsqlS.so.2
/usr/lib/libodbcpsqlS.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libodbctxtS.so.2
/usr/lib/libodbctxtS.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/liboplodbcS.so.2
/usr/lib/liboplodbcS.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/liboraodbcS.so.2
/usr/lib/liboraodbcS.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libsapdbS.so.2
/usr/lib/libsapdbS.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libtdsS.so.2
/usr/lib/libtdsS.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libtemplate.so.2
/usr/lib/libtemplate.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/README
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/README.dist
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/AdministratorManual
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/AdministratorManual/index.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/AdministratorManual/odbcinst.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/AdministratorManual/php3.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/AdministratorManual/unixODBC.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/AdministratorManual/unixODBCsetup.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/Tutorial
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/Tutorial/close.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/Tutorial/conne.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/Tutorial/dsn.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/Tutorial/gloss.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/Tutorial/index.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/Tutorial/intro.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/Tutorial/navi.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/Tutorial/odbc.css
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/Tutorial/query.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/Tutorial/resul.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/index.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/ProgrammerManual/unixODBC.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/UserManual
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/UserManual/Figure1.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/UserManual/Figure2.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/UserManual/Figure3.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/UserManual/Figure4.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/UserManual/Figure6.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/UserManual/My.sql
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/UserManual/StarOfficeDataGrid.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/UserManual/index.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/UserManual/unixODBC.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/index.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure.vsd
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure2.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure2.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure3.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure3.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure4.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure4.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure5.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure5.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure6.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure6.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure7.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure7.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure8.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure8.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure9.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/InternalStructure9.html
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/back.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/lst/next.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/smallbook.gif
/usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.1/doc/unixODBC.gif
/usr/share/man/man1/dltest.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/isql.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/iusql.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/odbc_config.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/odbcinst.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/odbc.ini.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/odbcinst.ini.5.gz

References

unixODBC.i686 website

Summary

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