installing pyodbc

[Paul Watson]

timw.google wrote:
> I just downloaded the  pyodbc source to try and install on my Linux FC3
> box. I see that there is a setup.py file, but when I try to do a
> 'python setup.py build' (or just 'python setup.py') I get
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 27, in ?
>     revision = latest_revision('.')
>   File "setup.py", line 25, in latest_revision
>     return int(output)
> ValueError: invalid literal for int(): exported
> 
> The README.txt doesn't really say anything about how to install, exept
> that the easiest way is to use the Windows installer. That's fine for
> Windows, but what about Linux?
> 
> Thanks for any help.

Have you read the http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyodbc/ summary page 
where the "Operating System" indicates which platforms are supported? 
That might be relevant information.