Install mdbtools on Centos 7

Maestro depends on mdbtools for extracting part data from a Parts&Vendors database. I have always used mdbtools on FreeBSD (installing the binary package), but recently have needed mdbtools on Centos 7 for use with ERPNext. I read a number of internet posts recommending installing mdbtools from the Fedora EPEL repository but, if mdbtools is still in EPEL, I need to learn more about installing software on Centos/RHEL.

Except for installing a few pre-requisites, install generally followed the mdbtools github README.mdb.

Install pre-requisites

# yum install glib2-devel
# yum install txt2man
# yum install gnome-doc-utils

Install mdbtools

# cd /root/work
# git clone https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools.git mdbtools
# cd mdbtools
# autoreconf -i -f
# ./configure
# make
# make install

Use mdbtools

The mdbtools utilities are installed to /usr/local/bin/

mdb-array
mdb-export
mdb-header
mdb-hexdump
mdb-parsecsv
mdb-prop
mdb-schema
mdb-sql
mdb-tables
mdb-ver

Each utility has its own man page

# man mdb-export

and includes built-in short help

mdb-export --help