

Management wants to move away from this and not have servers anymore since most (and eventually all) of our resources are in the cloud. We currently lease servers from a company as HaaS.
#Setting up odbc manager on linux install
You can then install the package named unixodbc using the aptitude install line (if you are not running as root you'll want to use sudo for the install line, so sudo aptitude install unixodbc). P unixodbc-dev - ODBC libraries for UNIX (development aptitude install unixodbcĪptitude search unixodbc will search for software mentioning unixodbc and provide a list of relevant results P unixodbc-bin - Graphical tools for ODBC management and browsing If you fancy getting your hands dirty with the command aptitude search unixodbc In Linux Mint 'the repos' refer to what apt/aptitude/synaptic/the package manager talks to when you install or update software. Honestly I found it worth converting to 64 bit for my application, the MS driver is that much better.

For instance, AldenW says "it should be in the repos".

I'll look at some of the other solutions you guys have mentioned and let you know. Yes, saw that, but it is 64-bit only and I am running on 32-bit hardware. This is a pretty reasonable guide to getting it up and running http:/ Opens a new window / ~boris/ blog/ 2011/ 12/ 02/ microsoft-sql-server-odbc-driver-linux Top tip for this is that Microsoft have released their own ODBC driver and (other than being a teeny bit fiddly) it is really rather good.
