Installing the Connector Using the Tarball Package

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 OEM ODBC Connectors Installation Guide.

The Simba MySQL ODBC Driver is available as a tarball package named SimbaMySQLODBC-[Version].[Release]-Linux.tar.gz, where [Version] is the version number of the connector and [Release] is the release number for this version of the connector. The package contains both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the connector.

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. You can install both versions of the connector on the same machine.

To install the connector using the tarball package:

  1. Create the directory of where you want to install the connector, if it does not already exist.
  2. Extract the main tarball file to a convenient temporary location.
  3. Extract the inner tarball file, corresponding to the version of the connector you want to install (32-bit or 64-bit), to a convenient temporary location.
  4. Navigate to the subfolder of the extracted inner tarball file, as done in the previous step, and then copy all the files and folders to the installation directory.
  5. Navigate to the temporary location of the extracted main tarball file done in step 2, and then copy the Tools folder to the installation directory.
  6. Navigate to the temporary location of the extracted main tarball file in step 2, and then copy the GoogleBigQueryODBC.did file to the /lib subfolder in the installation directory.
  7. The Google BigQuery ODBC Connector path is now [INSTALLDIR]/lib/[FileName].so. You can make required changes in the .ini files to correct path of connector .

Next, configure the environment variables on your machine to make sure that the ODBC driver manager can work with the connector. For more information, see Configuring the ODBC Driver Manager.

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