title: Unable to install pyodbc on Linux
body: <p>I am running Linux (2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.centos.plus) and trying to install pyodbc.  I am doing pip install pyodbc and get a very long list of errors, which end in </p>
  
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    <p>error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1</p>
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  <p>I looked in  <strong>/root/.pip/pip.log</strong> and saw the following:</p>
  
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    <p>InstallationError: Command /usr/local/bin/python -c "import setuptools; <strong>file</strong>='/home/build/pyodbc/setup.py'; execfile('/home/build/pyodbc/setup.py')" install --single-version-externally-managed --record /tmp/pip-7MS9Vu-record/install-record.txt failed with error code 1</p>
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  <p>Has anybody had a similar issue installing pyodbc?</p>