How To Install soci-odbc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install soci-odbc on CentOS 8.
What is soci-odbc
This package contains the ODBC back-end for soci, i.e., dynamic library specific to the ODBC connectors. If you would like to use soci in your programs with ODBC, you will need to install soci-odbc.
We can use yum or dnf to install soci-odbc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install soci-odbc.
Install soci-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 soci-odbc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install soci-odbc
Install soci-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 soci-odbc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install soci-odbc
How To Uninstall soci-odbc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the soci-odbc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove soci-odbc
soci-odbc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/f4582c9c727e2e1f05db2e1624b0a8bf476325
/usr/lib64/libsoci_odbc.so.4.0
/usr/lib64/libsoci_odbc.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/soci-odbc
/usr/share/doc/soci-odbc/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/soci-odbc/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/soci-odbc/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/soci-odbc/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/soci-odbc/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install soci-odbc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.