Unable to install pyodbc on Linux

python linux centos pyodbc
IgorGanapolsky picture IgorGanapolsky · Jun 2, 2010 · Viewed 95.2k times · Source

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?

Answer

Jim Clouse picture Jim Clouse · Jan 31, 2012

On Ubuntu, you'll need to install unixodbc-dev:

sudo apt-get install unixodbc-dev

Install pip by using this command:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

once that is installed, you should be able to install pyodbc successfully:

pip install pyodbc

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