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Installing the Jet 4.0 Database Engine Using Wine

By using the Jet 4.0 database engine, Enterprise Architect can access database files that employ Unicode character encoding.

Install Jet 4.0 Under Linux

To install 'jet40', we will use 'Winetricks'.

Step

Action

1

Open a Terminal window and run the command:

  • winetricks jet40

Install Jet 4.0 Under macOS

To install 'jet40', we will use 'Winetricks'.  However, we must first install 'Homebrew' - which is a Package Manager for macOS - and 'cabextract' - which is software for extracting files from Microsoft cabinet files.

Step

Action

1

Install 'Homebrew'

'Homebrew' is an 'unofficial' Package manager for macOS.

To install 'Homebrew', open a Terminal window and issue the command:

  • ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

Note:  It will take a few minutes to download and install all of the required components.

2

Install 'cabextract'

The 'cabextract' application is software that is employed by 'Winetricks' to extract files from Microsoft cabinet files.

To install 'cabextract', open a Terminal window and issue the command:

  • brew install cabextract

3

Install Jet 4.0 Database Engine

Using 'Finder', display the Applications folder.

Double-click on 'Wine' (or 'Wine Stable') to open a Terminal window configured to use the Wine environment.

In the Terminal window, issue the command:

  • /Applications/winetricks  jet40
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