How To Install soci-odbc on CentOS 8

soci-odbc is ODBC back-end for soci

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.