4.2 Installing Connector/ODBC on Unix-like Systems

4.2.1 Installing Connector/ODBC Using the MySQL Yum Repository
4.2.2 Installing Connector/ODBC from a Binary Tarball Distribution
4.2.3 Installing Connector/ODBC from a DEB Distribution
4.2.4 Installing Connector/ODBC from an RPM Distribution

There are three methods available for installing Connector/ODBC on a Unix-like system from a binary distribution. For most Unix environments, you will use the tarball distribution. For Linux systems, RPM distributions are available, through the MySQL Yum repository (for some platforms) or direct download.

Prerequisites

unixODBC 2.2.12 or later
OpenSSL
C++ runtime libraries (libstdc++)

Note

Connector/ODBC provides generic Linux packages for Intel architecture (both 32 and 64 bits). As of Connector/ODBC 8.0.32, generic Linux packages for ARM architecture (64 bit) are also available.