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<br>Is your error produced by libreOffice?<br><br>I can guess that the problem is because you are trying to open a .dbf file with libreoffice calc, that is the default application in Ubuntu 12.04 to open this sort of files.<br><br>To open .dbf files you should use libreoffice base. this application not is included in Ubuntu, you must to install the packages previously.<br><br>sudo apt-get install libreoffice-base<br><br>I hope this help you.. I had the same problem when I updated my Ubuntu version.<br><br>Regards,<br><br><br>John Ortiz<br>Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute<br>Panama <br> <br><br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:07:46 +0200<br>From: ricerca@palombini.net<br>To: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org<br>Subject: [GRASS-user] opening dbf tables<br><br>
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<div style="font:normal 13px Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br><div>Dear all,</div><div> </div><div>as i'm not very used used to work on vector files i don't know how to manage a (probably) simple problem.<br><br>i'm working on some shapefiles to be imported in Grass, but before doing so i should modify the dbf table. When trying to open it (Ubuntu 12.04), i got the message </div><div> </div><div>(in italian) <br></div><div> </div><div>errore generale <br>errore generale di I/O</div><div> </div><div>i wasn't able to pen the table even by command line (sudo) nor found any hidden lock file in the directory. </div><div>Any suggestion?<br><br>Thanks a lot</div><div>Augusto <br></div><div> </div></div>
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