FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Wolfe <michael.joseph.wolfe AT gmail.com>]

Additional debugging info...

odbcinst -q -d

returns:

[FreeTDS-Head]
[FreeTDS]


I think this tells me something, but I don't know what.


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Michael Wolfe
<michael.joseph.wolfe AT gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an existing copy of freetds that I installed on Ubuntu Server
> without difficulty using the instructions here:
> http://www.pauldeden.com/2008/12/how-to-setup-pyodbc-to-connect-to-mssql.html.
>  However, there is a bug fix in one of the most recent nightly builds
> that I need.  The problem is that I can't seem to get the current
> version installed so that my system will use it.
>
> I tried:
>
> apt-get install freetds-dev
>
>
> but received the following message:
>
> freetds-dev is already the newest version.
>
>
> I then went to 
> ftp://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/current/freetds-current.tgz
> and downloaded the nightly build.  I followed the instructions from
> here: http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_Debian_FreeTDS_ODBC,
> nearly to the letter.  Everything seemed to go smoothly.  However, it
> didn't seem to use the new version.  So I then tried uninstalling the
> original installation using apt-get:
>
> sudo apt-get --purge remove freetds-dev
>
> This seemed to have little effect (the file /etc/freetds/freetds.conf
> file still exists, for example), except that running it a second time
> produced this message:
>
> Package freetds-dev is not installed, so not removed
>
>
> I have tried so many different things I've lost track of where I am.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -Mike
>