= Mdbtools =

''See also: Starting with GDAL/OGR 1.9.0, the [http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_mdb.html MDB] driver is an alternate way of reading ESRI Personal GeoDatabase .mdb files without requiring unixODBC and MDB Tools.''

On Linux, the ''mdbtools'' package is required to use the OGR [wiki:PGeo] (ESRI Personal GeoDatabase) driver. See the [http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html documentation] of the driver how to setup mdbtools and unixODBC.

However the ''mdbtools'' package is upstream is currently abandoned and suffers from a many bugs that prevent the latest released version to be used successfully for the OGR PGeo driver. See also [wiki:PGeo].

Instead, it is recommended to build the maintained fork of ''mdbtools'' from [https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools], which includes multiple fixes which are required for correctly reading binary content in MDB files via OLE. This forked version works perfectly with Personal GeoDatabase geometry content.