[gdal-dev] ogrinfo and PGeo Driver for .mdb file, on Ubuntu

[Eli Adam]

Chris,

GDAL 1.9 is trunk so I built from source.  You need to first install
subversion, a compiler and other things to compile software.  Once you have
the proper environment, then for the basic GDAL build (which would not
include mdb of any sort) it is not too difficult and there are directions on
the wiki, http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnUnix

Adding in more formats and drivers is more difficult.  Usually, there are
details on the format page, http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_mdb.html and/or the
build hints section of the wiki, http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildHints

For the way I did it for the Access mdb driver, I had to make a file
/etc/ld.so.sonf.d/libjvm.conf which just has the path pointing to libjvm.so
I did this based on the file not found errors I got after compiling and
running ogrinfo on the first attempt.  I don't fully understand what is the
proper way to address issues like this and there may be better ways.  I
first learned about it using the FileGDB driver.  Here is that thread,
http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/gdal-dev-FileGDB-OGR-driver-test-td6237191.html
Even's suggestion about adding to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and these two links are
mostly what helped me figure it out.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/480764/linux-error-while-loading-shared-libraries-cannot-open-shared-object-file-no-su
and
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20090301081221/http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html

HTH, Eli


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Chris Green <chris.green at ibstv.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi Eli****
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> Thanks for your suggestion. Despite pulling most of my hair out I still
> can’t get past the syntax error thrown by the PGeo driver, so I would
> certainly be interested to follow the alternative approach. However  I see
> in the drv_mdb documentation that GDAL/OGR >=1.9.0 is required, yet I can’t
> find anything for Ubuntu later than 1.8 (from UbuntuGIS unstable).  Do you
> have 1.9 on your Ubuntu, if so could you tell me where I can find it?****
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> Chris****
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> *From:* Eli Adam [mailto:eadam at co.lincoln.or.us]
> *Sent:* 24 October 2011 19:32
> *To:* Chris Green
> *Cc:* gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [gdal-dev] ogrinfo and PGeo Driver for .mdb file, on Ubuntu
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> Chris,
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>      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 <chris.green at ibstv.co.uk>
> wrote:****
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> 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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