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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
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Compiling mdb-tools on Ubuntu 12.04

I recently replaced Linux Mint 13 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as the GNU Linux distribution on my dual-boot laptop. One of the first tasks after basic configuration was to install mdb-tools for Maestro development (used to extract data from a Parts&Vendors MS Jet4 database).

Install build dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install libtool
$ sudo apt-get install automake
$ sudo apt-get install txt2man
$ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libdb-dev

Clone the mdb-tools GitHub repo:

$ cd ~/src
$ cd src
$ git clone https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools.git mdbtools
$ cd mdbtools

Compile mdb-tools, and install executables and man pages

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Rebuild ld cache:

$ sudo ldconfig

Man pages are installed for mdb-tools executables:

  • mdb-array
  • mdb-export
  • mdb-header
  • mdb-hexdump
  • mdb-parsecvs
  • mdb-prop
  • mdb-schema
  • mdb-sql
  • mdb-tables
  • mdb-ver

For more information on mdb-tools:

For more information on why you have to run ldconfig after installing mdb-tools: