[GRASS-user] Unable create DBF database (in GRASS-GIS 7.0)

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Manish Gautam
<manish.gautam29 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting following error while using the t.* commands in GRASS-GIS
> 7.0 (I have installed the latest snapshot of it)
>
> DBMI-DBF driver error:
> Unable create DBF database: home/grass_location/user1/dbf/
>
> DBMI-DBF driver error:
> Unable create DBF database: home/grass_location/user1/dbf/
>
> ERROR: Unable to open database
>        <home/grass_location/user1/dbf/>

The easiest solution will be to switch the DB backend to SQLite:
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/db.connect.html

# set to SQLite default database backend
db.connect -d

Then it should work.

Markus