Installing the ODBC Driver on Linux

A driver manager is required for managing the communication between Qubole and the ODBC driver.

The following subtopics the installation-related information:

Prerequisites

Warning

Ensure that you uninstall the older version of the ODBC driver (if it exists) before installing a new version. You can run sudo yum remove qds-odbc.x86_64 to uninstall the ODBC driver.

Qubole ODBC driver is supported on the following Linux distributions:

  • CentOS
  • Red Hat Linux Enterprise 7.x

You can use iODBC or unixODBC as the driver manager as they are both supported by the ODBC driver.

iODBC as the Driver Manager

If iODBC is not installed on the centOS/RHEL, run the following command as a sudo user.

# yum install libiodbc

It provides the iodbctest command utility to verify the connection.

unixODBC as the Driver Manager

unixODBC offers command line utilities (isql and odbcinst) to install, configure, and test the driver. To verify if this package is installed along with distribution, run the following commands:

  1. $ which odbcinst
  2. $ which isql

If unixODBC is not installed, run the following command to install it.

$ sudo yum install unixODBC.x86_64

Verify the paths of ODBC configuration files (odbcinst.ini and odbc.ini) using odbcinst command as mentioned here:

  1. $ odbcinst -j
  2. $ yum install libiodbc

Installing the ODBC Driver

Perform these steps to install the ODBC driver on Linux on Series 3.0.0 driver:

Note

To install a different version, change the required version number in the steps.

  1. This is an optional step if you want to verify the integrity of the downloaded package.

    Run $ rpm --checksig qds-odbc-3.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm. The expected command output is:

    qds-odbc-3.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm: sha1 md5 OK

    Additionally, the package is signed by SHA-256. Download the key and signature from these locations:

    Add the key and signature to verify the package as shown below:

    $ openssl dgst -sha256 -verify pubkey.pem -signature qds-odbc-3.0.0-1.x86_64.sig qds-odbc-3.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm

    The expected response is Verified OK.

  2. Install Qubole driver package as a sudo user (super user) by running the command below.

    $ sudo yum install qds-odbc-3.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm

  3. After installing the driver. the LD_PRELOAD environment variable is set with the required library. Check the ENVIRONMENT variable (LD_PRELOAD) by logging out of the current shell terminal and logging back through a new shell terminal. Here is a sample illustration of the command.

    [ec2-user@aws-instance ~]$ echo $LD_PRELOAD
:/lib64/libiodbcinst.so.2:::

  4. Check the Qubole driver’s entry in /etc/odbcinst.ini. This file has an entry for drivers installed on the system.

    $ cat /etc/odbcinst.ini

    The expected output is as below.

    [ODBC Drivers]
QuboleODBC=Installed
[QuboleODBC]
Description=Qubole ODBC Driver DSN
Driver=/usr/local/qubole/libquboleodbc.so

  5. After the package is installed, the driver gets added as a default system DSN entry into /etc/odbc.ini.

Testing the Installation

You can verify the Linux driver installation by searching the Qubole driver entry in the /etc/odbcinst.ini. Run the command below to search the Linux driver.

$ cat /etc/odbcinst.ini

Uninstalling the ODBC Driver

Before installing a new version of ODBC driver, you should uninstall the existing version of ODBC driver. Run this command to uninstall the existing version of ODBC driver.

sudo yum remove qds-odbc.x86_64