title: How does one determine if iODBC, unixODBC (or neither) are installed?
body: <p>I'm on Ubuntu Linux and wondering how to detect what ODBC driver manager the system has, if any.</p>
  
  <p>Like Rakib's commentary, one very rough way I've used is to simply try and run <code>isql</code> (unixODBC) or <code>iodbctest</code>, 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).</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LF5yt.png" alt="Running isql, iodbctest, and pyodbc.connect() to determine what ODBC driver manager is available"></p>