Downloading the ODBC Driver¶
Snowflake provides an installer for the ODBC driver.
Note
If you plan to use yum
to download and install the ODBC driver for Linux, skip ahead to
Using yum to download and install the driver.
To download the installer:
Review the license agreement.
If you are already using the ODBC driver and need to download an updated version, check the version that you are using, and review the changes between your version and the updated version in the ODBC Driver release notes
To find the version of the driver that you are using, call the CURRENT_CLIENT SQL function from an application using the driver. You can also verify the driver version by examining queries executed by the driver in the QUERY_HISTORY view.
Go to the ODBC Download (https://developers.snowflake.com/odbc/) page, and download the installer.
Note
The Linux installation package is provided in three variations:
TGZ (TAR file compressed using .GZIP)
RPM
DEB
The TGZ package requires some manual configuration tasks. The RPM and DEB packages include an automated installer and support validation using the public GPG key provided by Snowflake.
See the following topics to install and configure the driver: