odbcinst command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

odbcinst: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: odbcinst: command not found

Solutions to odbcinst: command not found

How To Fix odbcinst: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu odbcinst is provided by odbcinst package.

odbcinst is:

UnixODBC is an implementation of the Open Database Connectivity standard, a database abstraction layer that allows applications to be used with many different relational databases by way of a single library.

This package contains the odbcinst helper tool, which allows ODBC driver packages to install and manage their driver configuration.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install odbcinst

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install odbcinst.

sudo apt -y install odbcinst

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install odbcinst

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix odbcinst command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.