[PLUG] Getting into MS Access Database

[Dave]

On the topic of knoda, it requires (optional) database backends, sqlite, 
postgres, access, what have you.  Under debian, Access' stuff is in 
the "libmdbtools" pacakge.

On second thoughts, OO.o may be suffering from a similar issue.  Though, I 
don't know enough about OO.o to say, but I would guess your system just 
doesn't have any libraries to read .mdb files?

On Thursday 20 April 2006 09:37, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:34:05 -0700
>
> Dave <dave at dhdo.org> dijo:
> > I never had much luck with OO.o's access stuff (and I've not been
> > impressed with Access overall anyway) -- Knoda is pretty nice, it uses
> > backend drivers to put a fancy GUI on databases like mysql or postgres...
> >
> > Using knoda with the mdb drivers, I was able to open the Access 2002
> > version of the file decently -- I got 'table1' which seems to be the
> > extent of the dictionary with a sample record being (column names
> > excluded because I'm lazy):
> > bearnmyrðra	mw	murderer or murderess of children
> >
> > I got a couple conversion errors complaining about "Missing or broken VBE
> > reference to the file MSJETSQL.TLB", though.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. Knoda is listed in Synaptic, so I installed it.
> However, it cannot seem to see the wendere.mdb file. In fact, it cannot
> seem to see anything. The only thing that is not grayed out is Settings >
> Options, and nothing in there looks like it might have anything to do with
> the problem, except maybe the setting for "Driverpath:."
>