Problems with connecting to ESRI geodatabase on Linux

[Frank Warmerdam]

Stuart Eve wrote:
> Dear All (especially Frank!)
> 
> We are currently trying to connect to an ESRI 9.1 personal geodatabase 
> from a Suse 10 box.
> 
> I cannot connect to it via the mapfile, so have tried to use ogrinfo to 
> connect to narrow down the problem. I am getting the following error 
> message when I run 'ogrinfo 
> /srv/www/htdocs/chersonesos/shapefiles/chers_gis.mdb' :

Stuart,

While I haven't tried too hard with mdbtools, I have never been successful
using it.  I suppose I should try and not register the PGeo driver on unix.

Best regards,
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