Unable to install pyodbc on Linux

Question

I am running Linux (2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.centos.plus) and trying to install pyodbc. I am doing pip install pyodbc and get a very long list of errors, which end in

Answer 1

I faced with same issue. For python3.6.8 and ubuntu 16.04 none of above did not help me.

sudo apt-get install python3.6-dev

This solved my problem.

Answer 2

Struggled with the same issue

After running: sudo apt-get install unixodbc-dev

I was able to pip install pyodbc

Answer 3

I have referenced this question several times, and gone on to actually find the answer I was looking for here: pyodbc wiki

To avoid gcc error on Ubuntu Linux, I did:

sudo aptitude install g++

I also installed the following 2 packages from Synaptic:

• python-dev

• tdsodbc

Answer 4

For archlinux/manjaro:

sudo pacman -S unixodbc

then:

sudo pip install pyodbc

or:

pip install pyodbc

You can upgrade your pip wheel setuptools before installing pyodbc (it won't affect the pyodbc installation) also with:

sudo python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools

or

python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools

Answer 5

A easy way to install pyodbc is by using 'conda'. As conda automatically installs required dependencies including unixodbc.

conda --ugrade all (optional)

then conda install pyodbc

it will install following packages:

libgfortran-ng: 7.2.0-hdf63c60_3 defaults mkl: 2018.0.3-1 defaults mkl_fft: 1.0.2-py36_0 conda-forge mkl_random: 1.0.1-py36_0 conda-forge numpy-base: 1.14.5-py36hdbf6ddf_0 defaults pyodbc: 4.0.17-py36_0 conda-forge unixodbc: 2.3.4-1 conda-forge

Answer 6

In my case (Amazon Linux AMI) none of the above worked. The following worked (idea from here):

• Find the path to the file cc1plus. For me it was in /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-amazon-linux/4.8.5/cc1plus. For you it may vary a bit. Try ls -l /usr/libexec/gcc to find the proper directory name and go ahead.
• Find directories in your path: echo $PATH (for me it was /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/aws/bin)
• Put a link to cc1plus in one of the directories in your PATH: sudo ln -s /PATH/TO/cc1plus /DIRinPATH/
  For example in my case:
  sudo ln -s /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-amazon-linux/4.8.5/cc1plus /usr/bin/