How To Install erlang-odbc on Rocky Linux 8

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-odbc on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the erlang-odbc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove erlang-odbc

erlang-odbc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.