Plugins | Setup ESRI File Geodatabase Plugin
For Windows (32-bit):
- Download ESRI File Geodatabase API 1.3 for Windows 32-bit from http://www.esri.com/apps/products/download/
- (Note: You have to register to get ESRI File Geodatabase API)
- Unzip the downloaded ZIP package to your local hard drive. For example: C:\FileGDB_API
- Setup your Windows system environment for File Geodatabase
- Add the path of ESRI File Geodatabase (e.g. C:\FileGDB_API\bin) to PATH system variable in "System Properties" dialog (see following example)
- (Note: you need to add ; before the File Geodatabase Path)
- Restart GeoDa, then you should be able to open a .gdb dataset.
For Windows (64-bit):
- Download ESRI File Geodatabase API 1.3 for Windows 64-bit from http://www.esri.com/apps/products/download/
- (Note: You have to register to get ESRI File Geodatabase API)
- Unzip the downloaded ZIP package to local hard drive. For example: C:\FileGDB_API
- Setup your Windows system environment for File Geodatabase
- Add the path of ESRI File Geodatabase (e.g. C:\FileGDB_API\bin64) to PATH system variable in "System Properties" dialog (see following example)
- (Note: you need to add ; before the File Geodatabase Path)
- Restart GeoDa, then you should be able to open a .gdb dataset.
For Mac OSX ≥10.6 (64-bit):
- Download ESRI File Geodatabase API 1.3 for Mac 64-bit from ESRI Downloads http://www.esri.com/apps/products/download/
- (Note: You have to register to get ESRI File Geodatabase)
- Unzip the downloaded ZIP package to your local hard drive. For example: /Users/yourname/Downloads/FileGDB_API
- Click here to download install_plugins.sh script. Unzip it.
- Open a new terminal, run the following 3 commands to configure the ESRI File Geodatabase library for GeoDa.
cd /path/to/install_plugins.sh
export FileGDB_HOME=/Users/yourname/Downloads/FileGDB_API/lib
./install_plugins.sh /path/to/downloaded_GeoDa.app/
- Restart GeoDa, then you should be able to open a .gdb dataset.
For Ubuntu ≥14.04 (32-bit):
- Download ESRI File Geodatabase API 1.3 for Linux 32-bit from http://www.esri.com/apps/products/download/
- (Note: You have to register to get ESRI File Geodatabase API)
- Unzip the downloaded ZIP package to your local hard drive. For example: /home/yourname/Downloads/FileGDB_API
- Setup your Ubuntu system environment for ESRI File Geodatabase API
- Run the following command in a terminal (Note: remember to replace "yourname" )
echo "export FileGDB_HOME=/home/yourname/Downloads/FileGDB_API" >> ~/.bashrc
- Restart GeoDa, then you should be able to open a .gdb dataset.
For Ubuntu ≥14.04 (64-bit):
- Download ESRI File Geodatabase API 1.3 for Linux 64-bit from http://www.esri.com/apps/products/download/
- (Note: You have to register to get ESRI File Geodatabase API)
- Unzip the downloaded ZIP package to local hard drive. For example: /home/yourname/Downloads/FileGDB_API
- Setup your Ubuntu system environment for ESRI File Geodatabase API
- Run the following command in a terminal (Note: remember to replace "yourname" )
echo "export FileGDB_HOME=/home/yourname/Downloads/FileGDB_API" >> ~/.bashrc
- Restart GeoDa, then you should be able to open a .gdb dataset.