Subject RE: Install Firebird without being root.
Author
Post date 2013-09-27T10:11:27Z

You could run Classic as embedded database using your regular account. See here:


http://www.firebirdfaq.org/Firebird-Embedded-Linux-HOWTO.html


This guide is for FB 1.5, but it also applies to newer versions, you just need to copy more files from tar.gz archive.


Regards,


Milan Babuskov

http://www.guacosoft.com




---In Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com, <firebird-architect@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


Hi all,

I am trying to install Firebird on a university machine and us students
(unsurprisingly) do not have sysadmin permission (Linux - Debian type).

I was able to install PostgreSQL without problems. I just think that it's a
shame that there can't be a "--not-root" option when one issuses ./configure
with some sort of proviso that it's then up to the person installing to kick off
the database server as and when they need it.

Just a thought.


Paul...