Installing the Connector Using the RPM File

If you did not obtain this connector from the Simba website, you might need to follow a different installation procedure. For more information, see the Simba ODBC Connectors Installation Guide.

On 64-bit editions of Linux, you can execute both 32- and 64-bit applications. However, 64-bit applications must use 64-bit connectors, and 32-bit applications must use 32-bit connectors. Make sure that you use a connector whose bitness matches the bitness of the client application:

  • simbadruid-[Version]-[Release].i686.rpm for the 32-bit connector
  • simbadruid-[Version]-[Release].x86_64.rpm for the 64-bit connector

The placeholders in the file names are defined as follows:

  • [Version] is the version number of the connector.
  • [Release] is the release number for this version of the connector.

To install the Simba Druid ODBC Connector using the RPM File:

  1. Log in as the root user.
  2. Navigate to the folder containing the RPM package for the connector.
  3. Depending on the Linux distribution that you are using, run one of the following commands from the command line, where [RPMFileName] is the file name of the RPM package:
    • If you are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, run the following command:

      yum --nogpgcheck localinstall [RPMFileName]

    • Or, if you are using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, run the following command:

      zypper install [RPMFileName]

    • Or, if you are using Debian or Ubuntu, run the following command:

    Note: If the package manager in your Linux distribution cannot resolve the automatically when installing the connector, then download and manually install the package.

  4. If you received a license file through email, then copy the license file into the /opt/simba/druidodbc/lib/32 or /opt/simba/druidodbc/lib/64 folder, depending on the version of the connector that you installed.