Ubuntu libsqliteodbc bug

sqlite odbc libreoffice

Putting this here so I can find it again…

On Ubuntu 16.04, libsqliteodbc1 installs dynamic library files to the wrong directory.2

Instead of putting libsqlite3odbc.so in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, it puts it in a subdirectory, odbc. And then libreoffice-base3 looks for it in the normal place and can’t find it, leading to runtime errors if you try to connect via ODBC to an Sqlite3 database:

The connection to the data source "MY_DATA_SOURCE" could not be established.
[unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can't open lib 'libsqlite3odbc.so': file not found

So a fix is to install a symlink in the normal directory, pointing to the installed .so file:

$ sudo ln -s odbc/libsqlite3odbc.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

  1. version 0.9992-0.1 ↩︎

  2. Or, alternatively, libreoffice-base is looking in the wrong place. But there seems no good reason to install the library files to a subdirectory. ↩︎

  3. version 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial10 ↩︎

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