Chapter 4. Installation Options

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RPMs
Other Binary Packages
Source

MDB Tools call be installed from binaries or by compiling the source package.

RPMs

RPMs are made available for major releases (not including pre-release or release candidates). The RPM packages are split up along feature boundaries with a core package, a development package, an ODBC package, and a graphical package. To install, simply log in as root and run the following.

$ rpm -i mdbtools-0.5-1.rpm 
$ rpm -i mdbtools-devel-0.5-1.rpm 
$ rpm -i mdbtools-odbc-0.5-1.rpm 
$ rpm -i mdbtools-gui-0.5-1.rpm