Unable to install pyodbc on Linux

Question

Hi, I am running Linux (2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.centos.plus) and trying to install pyodbc. I am doing pip install pyodbc and get a very long list of errors, which end in

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

I looked in /root/.pip/pip.log and saw the following:

InstallationError: Command /usr/local/bin/python -c "import setuptools; file='/home/build/pyodbc/setup.py'; execfile('/home/build/pyodbc/setup.py')" install --single-version-externally-managed --record /tmp/pip-7MS9Vu-record/install-record.txt failed with error code 1

Has anybody had a similar issue installing pyodbc?

Thanks, Igor

Answer 1

I resolved my issue by following correct directions on http://code.google.com/p/pyodbc/wiki/Building which state:

On Linux, pyodbc is typically built using the unixODBC headers, so you will need unixODBC and its headers installed. On a RedHat/CentOS/Fedora box, this means you would need to install unixODBC-devel:

yum install unixODBC-devel