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

[Mike Schwartz]

     Thanks, Joe!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: joe at magnatechonline.com [mailto:joe at magnatechonline.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 8:09 PM
> To: Mike Schwartz
> Cc: filePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: filePro 5.7.3 installation needs libodbc.so.1 on SCO
Openserver
> 6
> 
> 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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