[Kexi] error when importing database (access97) on fedora core 5

[LarryT]

Thx Martin :)
i gonna try this , surely !
I will tell about all that.
Larry



Martin Ellis wrote:
> On Monday 02 October 2006 08:41, Jarosław Staniek wrote:
> 
>>>I have just installed the last aviable rpm for FC5 (kexi 1.0.2).
>>>Trying to import mdb database working on win XP, under access 97,
>>>and got an error message:
>>>"This type is not supported"
>>
>>Have you got Kexi MDB plugin package installed? Look at the Downoad
>>section of kexi-project.org for more info. There's no listed the
>>MDB driver however, so find it or request from Fedora developers -
>>packaging is obviously their task.
> 
> 
> Good luck with that!
> The Fedora packager didn't respond to my last emails. :o(
> 
> AFAIK, Debian, Ubuntu and FreeBSD are the only systems with the 
> keximdb driver packaged.
> 
> 
>>Other way of getting this installed is to compile from source code
>>(see Compiling section of kexi-project.org).
> 
> 
> This is just the usual ./configure ; make ; make install stuff.
> 
> Grab the tarball from 
> ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/koffice-1.5.2/src/
> 
> To be honest though, if I was using Fedora, I'd remove the packages 
> and just compile the KOffice 1.6 release candidate myself, and the 
> relevant version of keximdb.  Depends on how comfortable you are with 
> compiling stuff yourself though.
> 
> Martin
> 
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