How To Install erlang-odbc on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-odbc on CentOS 8. erlang-odbc is A library for unixODBC support in Erlang

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 yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install erlang-odbc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install erlang-odbc

Install erlang-odbc on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install erlang-odbc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-odbc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.