How To Install soci-odbc on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install soci-odbc on CentOS 7. soci-odbc is ODBC back-end for soci

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install soci-odbc on CentOS 7.

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 7. 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 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install soci-odbc

Install soci-odbc on CentOS 7 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 soci-odbc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install soci-odbc

How To Uninstall soci-odbc on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove soci-odbc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install soci-odbc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.