Unable to install pyodbc on Linux

Question

I am running Linux (2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.centos.plus) and trying to install pyodbc. I am doing pip install pyodbc and get a very long list of errors, which end in

Answer 1

Follow below steps to install pyodbc in any redhat version

yum install unixODBC unixODBC-devel
yum install gcc-c++
yum install python-devel
pip install pyodbc