On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:02:26 -0400 John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> I am on stable, (buster) and I have no such package. I wonder if it > would even install on buster, if I could find the .deb. I am pretty > sure my client does not want me to go to sid. > No, it's new in Debian and only in unstable so far: mariadb-connector-odbc (3.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium * Initial release (Closes: #930445) -- Bernhard Schmidt <be...@debian.org> Fri, 31 May 2019 19:40:33 +0200 May 2019, but after the buster release freeze. You could check the dependencies against buster (I don't have one, my former stables are now oldstable): https://packages.debian.org/sid/odbc-mariadb If they do match, the .deb is available here. Is there really no way other than ODBC? Possibly it has improved a lot, but I stopped trying to make it work when the LibreOffice Base native MySQL connector finally started working some years ago. At that time, ODBC on Debian was an utter shambles, almost completely unusable, the GUI editor was not even functional enough to be a joke. Does your client application really not have a native MySQL connector? I sometimes use Microsoft Access with a MariaDb backend, and even that has a MySQL driver, though possibly not written by the masters of Not-Invented-Here.... I have a feeling it came from MySQL themselves. -- Joe
