How does one determine if iODBC, unixODBC (or neither) are installed?

Question

I'm on Ubuntu Linux and wondering how to detect what ODBC driver manager the system has, if any.

Like Rakib's commentary, one very rough way I've used is to simply try and run isql (unixODBC) or iodbctest, because Ubuntu will report whether their parent package is installed. What's interesting is that on this fresh VM, pyodbc tells me that unixODBC was used even though its tools are not installed (see screenshot).

Answer 1

this is a crude way to do it by works:

find / -name "*unixodbc*"

Answer 2

To verify whether unixODBC is installed in the system, you can run the commands which odbcinst and which isql, which should return the path to the corresponding tools, or just run isql, which should print the syntax and available options for the isql utility.

Installing and Configuring an ODBC Driver on Linux (DEB / RPM)