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

According to official Microsoft docs for Ubuntu 18.04 you should run next commands:

sudo su 
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add -
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/18.04/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list
apt-get update
ACCEPT_EULA=Y apt-get install msodbcsql17
exit

If you are using python3.7, it is very important to run:

sudo apt-get install python3.7-dev