What Excites You?

Cole Tuininga colet at code-energy.com
Tue Mar 25 11:42:05 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 09:19, Cole Tuininga wrote:

> I went into OpenOffice Calc, selected Tools->Data Sources.  In the
> windows that came up, I selected ODBC.  The Data source URL field filled
> in with "sdbc:odbc".  Not knowing the syntax for the url (I'm trying to
> connect to a local mysql database) I tried clicking on the elipses
> button - which gave me the following error:
> 
> "Could not load the program library libodbc.so or it is corrupted.  The
> ODBC data source selection is not available."
> 
> I'm running debian and did just install the unixodbc and myodbc
> packages. 
> 
> $ locate libodbc.so
> /usr/lib/libodbc.so.1
> /usr/lib/libodbc.so.1.0.0

Found the problem.  Open Office wants libodbc.so ... not libodbc.so.1 or
libodbc.so.1.0.0.  So I just symlinked libodbc and I'm on my way. 

Thanks all.  8)

-- 
"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
 lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
 their C programs."  --  Robert Firth

Cole Tuininga
Lead Developer
Code Energy, Inc
colet at code-energy.com
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