Howto access data from MS Access .MBD file on Ubuntu 12.04.4 64 bit

There are very few tools / guides available to access data from MS Access .mdb file on GNU/Linux and following steps would help you quickly install MDB tools and access data from MS Access .mdb file on your system.

1) Install MDB tools

$ sudo apt-get install mdbtools

2) Install MDB graphical interface

$ sudo apt-get install mdbtools-gmdb

3) Now from command prompt run

$ gmdb2

and select .mdb file to access tables, queries, forms, reports macros & modules.

4) Also you can use other mdb tools commands prefixed with 'mdb-' from command prompt