r35444 - /packages/bibus/trunk/debian/README.Debian

[beathovn-guest at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: beathovn-guest
Date: Mon Jan 26 20:58:48 2009
New Revision: 35444

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-science/?sc=1&rev=35444
Log:
Added README.Debian explaining how to upgrade old Bibus databases. Upstream is working on a better error message from Bibus' GUI...

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    packages/bibus/trunk/debian/README.Debian

Added: packages/bibus/trunk/debian/README.Debian
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-science/packages/bibus/trunk/debian/README.Debian?rev=35444&op=file
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+Bibus for Debian
+================
+
+Bibus uses by default the SQLite3 module which is contained in Python >= 2.5.
+If you want to use older SQLite databases (version 2.x) you have to convert
+these databases first.
+
+You can check the version of your SQLite database by simply looking at the file
+with your favourite text editor. Bibus' database files are saved in
+~/.bibus/Databases/ and named something like DB_<somecharacters>.sqlite.
+The beginning of the file will tell you the database version. If it's a version
+2.x database, then you can convert it by installing both sqlite and sqlite3
+Debian packages and after that running the following command (being inside
+~/.bibus/Databases/):
+ $ sqlite <old-database-filename> .dump | sqlite3 newSQLite3database.sqlite
+This will create the file newSQLite3database.sqlite. You can then connect to
+your database in Bibus via File/Connect.
+
+  -- Jan Beyer <jan at beathovn.de> Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:56:00 +0100