Unsupported backend "sqlite" about howdoi

[gleitz]

I can't reproduce this issue on my installation of 2.7.2. I also see that the travis-ci build passes on 2.7.2. Is it possible you have some sort of special environment setup?

I believe the issue is with requests-cache. Please check your installation of requests-cache. What version are you using?

[tsaulic]

I have the same issue. Using homebrew sqlite 3.8.0.2 and also stock sqlite. Using python 2.7.5 also installed via homebrew. 'brew doctor' says the system is ready to brew.

requests-cache - Persistent cache for requests library
INSTALLED: 0.4.3 (latest)

I'll try older versions of requests-cache and report.

[tsaulic]

Tried 0.4.2 and 0.4.3 requests-cache both at home and on my work Mac, same thing as the OP. If I try to use howdoi in an anaconda env, it runs but I get a 'Failed to establish network connection'. Might be worth to note that I have to be authenticated via TLS (dot1x) on my network port. All other tools work fine/have network access.

[tsaulic]

Managed to fix it. Looks like my python wasn't built with sqlite (I installed sqlite after).

Just do:

brew uninstall sqlite gdbm python
brew install sqlite gdbm --universal
brew install python --universal --framework

And it should work :) Hope it works for OP too.

[gleitz]

Thanks for the solution; closing the issue.

[gleitz]

I ran into this issue again after upgrading to Mavericks. I fixed it with:

brew rm sqlite python
brew install python

SQLite3 will be installed automatically as a dependency.

Note: there is also a fix in requests-cache but I don't think it is in the latest version yet.