[GRASS-user] opening dbf tables

[Paulo van Breugel]

Why would you not want to open the dbh file in Libreoffice calc? It 
works fine for me. Unless you are working with datasets of over 1 
miljoen records, the maximum rows in Calc.

I have not clue about the error message, but what if you try to open it 
directly from the Open file menu in LibreOffice (or any other software 
you prefer)?

An alternative option might be opening the shapefile in QGIS. In QGIS it 
is easy to make changes in your attribute table (the dbf file). And if 
you need to change columns (delete, move, rename), you can use the Table 
manager plugin for QGIS. As a bonus, you can directly import the file 
afterwards in your GRASS database from within QGIS using the GRASS 
toolbox in QGIS.

Cheers,

Paulo




On 05/18/2012 06:12 PM, John Ortiz wrote:
>
> Is your error produced by libreOffice?
>
> 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.
>
> To open .dbf files you should use libreoffice base. this application 
> not is included in Ubuntu, you must to install the packages previously.
>
> sudo apt-get install libreoffice-base
>
> I hope this help you..  I had the same problem when I updated my 
> Ubuntu version.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> John Ortiz
> Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
> Panama
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:07:46 +0200
> From: ricerca at palombini.net
> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [GRASS-user] opening dbf tables
>
>
> Dear all,
> as i'm not very used used to work on vector files i don't know how to 
> manage a (probably) simple problem.
>
> 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
> (in italian)
> errore generale
> errore generale di I/O
> i wasn't able to pen the table even by command line (sudo) nor found 
> any hidden lock file in the directory.
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Augusto
>
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