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ibm-access driver not installable on Ubuntu 23.10
When installing ibm-iaccess on ubuntu 23.10 it fails because it has a dependency pm libodbc1 which is not available in the default repo for 23.10.
$ sudo apt install ibm-iaccess
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ibm-iaccess : Depends: libodbc1 but it is not installable
Depends: odbcinst1debian2 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I downloaded ACS Linux App Pkg and noticed the README says the following:
1.1 SUPPORTED ENVIRONMENTS
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This service pack is supported on the following Linux distributions:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (x86_64, ppc64le)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x86_64, ppc64, ppc64le)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 (x86_64, ppc64le)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (x86_64, ppc64le)
- Ubuntu Linux 22.04 (amd64, ppc64el)
- Ubuntu Linux 20.04 (amd64, ppc64el)
- Ubuntu Linux 18.04 (amd64, ppc64el)
This leads me to believe that only the LTS version of Ubuntu are supported?
Will ibm-iaccess have to be updated to use libodbc2 if libodbc1 is no longer included in the default package repo?
For questions related to the odbc driver, this should be handled through IBM Support in the future. This is a repo for questions about open source, which the odbc driver is not.
I will say that yes, only the above distributions and versions are supported and we make no guarantee it will work on any other platform or version. I cannot comment on future platform support.
Thanks for the quick response. I will be sure to go through IBM Support for any questions regarding the driver and platforms it supports.