Chris,
There is also another route that may work for PGeo,
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mdb.html I recently built that on Ubuntu but
have not used it yet. It looks like you are close on the other route
though.
HTH, Eli
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Chris Green <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi List****
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> I’m hoping someone can help me make ogr work under Linux with the PGeo
> driver, so I can read an ESRI Personal Database .mdb file into Mapserver. I
> can see from old posts that the basic problem is that MDBTools is a bit
> ‘flaky’ and needs a DSN based connection rather than connecting direct to
> the .mdb data.****
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> I have been trying to follow the instructions in
> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html . Having installed unixODBC and
> MDBTools, I configured the odbcinst.ini and odbc.ini files as suggested and
> it seems that I have partial success because when I define my datasource in
> odbc.ini like so:****
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> [my_pgeo]****
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> Description = Sample PGeo Database****
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> Driver = Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)****
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> Database = /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/data/test.mdb****
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> then the command ogrinfo PGeo:my_pgeo results in the following:****
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> INFO: Open of ‘PGeo:my_pgeo’ using driver ‘PGeo’ successful. ****
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> Error: syntax error at line:2 col:0****
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> I can’t figure out what or where this syntax error can be. I feel that I am
> quite close to success but don’t know how to move forward from here. Can
> anyone point me in the right direction please?****
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> Chris ****
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