yum search odbc
What you're looking for is the unixODBC package. In CentOS it includes an ODBC driver for MySQL as well.
Or, is the ODBC driver the same as the sql-connector-java-5.0.8 driver? That one I do have; I set up OpenOffice to point to that one too as I did for the JDBC Driver.
No, anything with "java" in the name is JDBC, not ODBC.
Google is your friend as well: http://www.google.ca/search?q=openoffice+odbc+linux
The first one is a tutorial on how to connect OOo to MySQL, quite old though. The second one is an article in Linux.com with some information on JDBC vs. ODBC.
In general, however, I agree with Matt that your problem is OOo related and asking on an OOo list would be more fruitful.
Filipe
Now why didn't I think of that?!? I will and if I find a solution I'll post it on this thread thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008