How To Install erlang-odbc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-odbc on CentOS 8.
What is erlang-odbc
An interface to relational SQL-databases built on ODBC (Open Database Connectivity).
We can use yum or dnf to install erlang-odbc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install erlang-odbc.
Install erlang-odbc on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install erlang-odbc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install erlang-odbc
Install erlang-odbc on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install erlang-odbc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install erlang-odbc
How To Uninstall erlang-odbc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the erlang-odbc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove erlang-odbc
erlang-odbc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/ba0e1fc7235fbc5e51a4ad3b8c0a78e3ce862b
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/ebin
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/ebin/odbc.app
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/ebin/odbc.appup
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/ebin/odbc.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/ebin/odbc_app.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/ebin/odbc_sup.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/include
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/include/odbc.hrl
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/priv
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/priv/bin
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/priv/bin/odbcserver
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/src
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/odbc-2.12.4/src/odbc_internal.hrl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-odbc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.