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)
--
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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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