[GRASS-dev] G6.4.2: gis.m issue on Ubuntu

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> MarkusN:
>
>> I got a request from an Ubuntu user related to gis.m/tcltk/sqlite but
>> have no idea how to help:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:01 AM, wrote:
>>>  I am trying to run Grass 6.4 following instructions in chapter 3 of your
>>>  book using the nc_spm_08 downloaded from your site. I am using Ubuntu
>>>  12.10 64-bit, with Grass 6.4 installed from the Ubuntu Software Center,
>>>  and with SQLite 3.
>>>
>>>  I get this message when trying to run -> gis.m
>>>
>>>  GRASS 6.4.2 (nc_spm_08):~ > gis.m
>>>  GRASS 6.4.2 (nc_spm_08):~ > error reading package index
>>>  file /usr/lib/sqlite/pkgIndex.tcl: expected version number but got
>>>  "0.0."

...
> /usr/lib/sqlite/pkgIndex.tcl comes from the libsqlite-tcl package,
> but that is not used or required by the grass package(s) AFAIK. I just tried
> GIS.m in an Lubuntu 13.04 VM and gis.m worked ok. I did get the same error message
> if I manually installed the libsqlite-tcl package (even with dbf as the db.connect
> default), but other than the message in the terminal gis.m seemed to work ok.
>
> So I'd guess an error in the other package and grass users can ignore it?

I just received an update: The issue got fixed  in Ubuntu 12.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sqlite/+bug/996644

So it was not a GRASS bug... good to know.

Markus