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are ODBC drivers for Linux; however, I don't happen to know of any free ones (there might be some).
ODBC is not built into the operating system in Linux, the way it is in Windows. If you insist on using the JDBC-ODBC bridge, you will need to find a Linux ODBC driver that can read an Excel file.
There's probably a good chance that someone has either written a JDBC type 4 driver for excel, or that there's a good non-JDBC
Java way to read Excel files.