StarSQL/Linux Thin Installer (Linux x64 RPM)
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June 2022

Note - this information is now superceded by the documentation for StarSQL/UNIX 6.50.


This is a new packaging of the StarSQL/Linx ODBC driver designed for easy installation in an automated environment such as a container and for use with SQDR/Linux.

Instructions:

* Install pre-requisities:
  
- unixODBC 2.3.7 or later.  This is standard on RHEL/Oracle 8.x.  RHEL/Oracle/CentOS 7.x includes an older version of unixODBC, but you can obtain unixODBC 2.3.7 from the Microsoft Yum repository - see the Microsoft installation instructions for SQL Server on Linux.

- on RHEL/Oracle 8.x & later, install compat-openssl10.

- Install StarSQL with rpm -i starsql64-<version>-1.x86_64.rpm

e.g. rpm -i starsql64-6.44-1.x86_64.rpm

Updating:

If you are running an older version of StarSQL with "classic" packaging, uninstall it first, and then install this version

# rpm -e starsql64
# rpm -i starsql64-<version>-1.x86_64.rpm

You may have to adjust your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and any existing DSN's that use the absolute path to the driver rather than a symbolic name.


To update from a previous install of the "thin" package:

# rpm -U starsql64-<version>-1.x86_64.rpm


This packaging differs from the "classic" packaging (and documentation) in the following ways:

* Only the 64-bit standard version using RPM is supplied; use a classic package if you need any of the other options (e.g. 32-bit StarSQL, tar-based installer for non-RPM systems, specially licensed versions).

* There is no setup shell script; invoke rpm directly.

* The default installation directory is /opt/StarQuest/starsql64 rather than /usr/share/starsql64.

* unixODBC is not included; you should install unixODBC as an RPM from your distro or from Microsoft

* The typical unixODBC RPM expects odbcinst.ini & odbc.ini to be located in /etc rather than /usr/local/odbcinst. It also places the unixODBC libraries in /usr/lib64, so it is no longer necessary to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

* The unixODBC GUI applications (odbctest, DataManager, DataManagerII, and ODBCConfig) are not included. Configuration of ODBC data sources is done by using a text editor to modify ~/.odbc.ini or /etc/odbc.ini, rather than using the GUI application ODBCConfig.

* 2 driver entries are created in /etc/odbcinst.ini:  
  StarSQL64
  StarSQL (64-bit)

We recommend using "StarSQL (64-bit)" for compatibility with StarSQL on Windows.