These are the instructions I have, my application needs odbc and nothing I can do about it.
On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:30:02 -0400, Joe wrote: > > 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 -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com
