After installing the "unixODBC" and "mariadb-connector-odbc" packages, I finally found this:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/creating-a-data-source-with-mariadb-connectorodbc/

After following the directions there for setting up a data source and running the "odbcinst" commands from that document, I got it to work.

--Greg


On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 8:22 PM Greg Woods <greg@gregandeva.net> wrote:
I remember setting this up quite some time ago, but now I have a new machine running F38. I can find some documentation for the old very tedious procedure to get this to work; it still does work on an older machine where I had done this. But I notice now that Fedora might already have some of the required packages, such as mariadb-connector-odbc-3.1.19-1.fc38.x86_64 and unixODBC-2.3.11-2.fc38.x86_64 . Would these packages work? Has anyone here already gotten LibreOfficeBase to talk to a MariaDB database on Fedora 38? If so can you point me to a place that describes the process for getting it working?

Thanks in advance,
--Greg