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Adding An ODBC Driver For MySQL On Ubuntu Sometimes you may find the need to develop cross platform applications which make use of a database. ODBC can be a solution to your portability needs, but unfortunately it is not as easy to set up an ODBC connection on Linux as it is on Windows. This tutorial attempts to shed some light on this process by guiding you towards adding an ODBC driver on Ubuntu. The process described below has been tested on Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.10.

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By: Lutfi

On my Hardy, it's cannot start using "iodbcadm-gtk". But using "sudo iodbcadm-gtk" can running.

By: Glenn

The odbc client closes everytime I click on the "Driver Tab" :(

By: Jordan

There is an alternative driver connection instruction to install and customize MySQL odbc driver https://www.devart.com/odbc/mysql/docs/index.html 

By: Howard

Thanks, this helped a bit.  The link, "MySQL connector page" is broken.  And could you show some examples or give more info on how to set the parameters.  For example is server localhost ok?  Thanks!