[Qgis-user] How to open ESRI geodatabase in QGIS 1.8 and Gdal 1.9 on Ubuntu?

[Alex Mandel]

On 11/06/2012 10:43 PM, Johan Nilsson wrote:
> How do I open ESRIs geodatabase .gdb-files in QGIS 1.8 and Gdal 1.9? I have
> found on internet that the package OSGeo4W are needed, but this is only för
> ms-windows, i suppose, but I run Ubuntu 12.04LTS. As I understand it, is
> should also only bee possible for ArcGIS 10, not older versions of ArcGIS.
> By the way, .gdb appears in Ubuntu as a folder with lot of files inside.
> 
> /Cheers Jjohan N
> 
> 

They can be opened on either Windows or Linux, what you need is the
gdal/ogr file geodatabase driver. This requires getting some files from
ESRI (free) and doing a little bit of compiling.

I found this which should help. But I though there was a way that didn't
require a complete gdal compile.
http://www.paolocorti.net/2012/01/10/gdal_19_released/

As for ArcGIS, there are several versions of Geodatabases, newer Arcs
can read older databases but not vice versa.

Thanks,
Alex