filePro 5.7.3 installation needs libodbc.so.1 on SCO Openserver 6

[Joe Chasan]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 06:52:39PM -0500, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>     This afternoon  I attempted to install filePro 5.7.3 on a SCO Openserver
> 6 system, but the install failed with link libodbc.so.1 errors.   I've tried
> to Google things like "SCO unixodbc" and "openserver libodbc" and several
> similar combinations. but I don't see any easy way to get  libodbc.so.1
> installed.  
> 
>      I have put maintenance Pack 4 and whatever other SCO patches that I
> thought were useful to have on the SCO Openserver 6 system.   
> 
>      Any suggestions about what I need to install or do to fix this?

you need to install UnixODBC - get it from sco's skunkware website at:
ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr6/vols/unixODBC-2.2.12Sa-VOLS.cpio
 
>      There seems to be a lot of information concerning installing unixodbc
> on Linux systems by using RPM's.  I did have a lot of trouble installing
> 5.7.0 on a Red Hat Linux system this spring.  After installing every RPM
> that I could find that mentioned libodbc on that box, I was finally able to
> get filepro 5.7 to install.

yeah, apparently a updated README that goes along with install is not 
something that's done yet.
  
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