Silently Install the Mac OS X ODBC Driver

  1. Log into the client Mac in one of two ways:
    • As an administrator account, if you are installing the driver for system-wide use
    • As the user who needs to use the Vertica ODBC driver
  2. Open a terminal window. In the Finder, click Applications > Utilities > Terminal.
  3. Install the .pkg file containing the ODBC driver using the command:

    sudo installer -pkg ~/Downloads/vertica-odbc8.1.pkg -target /

    In the preceding .pkg command, change the path to that of the downloaded file, if:

    • You downloaded the driver .pkg file to a directory other than your Downloads directory.

    • You downloaded the driver using another user account.

Note: After installing the ODBC driver, you must create a DSN to be able to connect to your Vertica database. For the procedure, see Creating an ODBC DSN for Macintosh OS X Clients.