marius popa wrote:

> Lester Caine wrote:
>
>>marius popa wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>>I fell at the first hurdle - because the machine is an i386 and Firebird
>>>>in the i386 link is i686 ;)
>>>
>>>rpm --ignorearch don't verify package architecture
>>>
>>>another option is to recompile firebird and change in
>>>firebird2/gen/make.platform
>>>
>>>-march=i586 -mcpu=i686 to -march=i386 -mcpu=i686
>>
>>
>>Afraid that is just an example of why Windows is currently so much
>>easier than Linux :(
>>And it's over a year since I had Linux up properly so I've got to
>>remember where I was ;)
>>
>
> hmm life in debian is better :) i can use apt ("This APT has Super Cow
> Powers.")
>
> apt-get firebird2-super-server and it should download and install firebird
>

i did a nice trick today in debian sid (if you want to install
firebird+php+apache in a single shot)

apt-get install ibwebadmin

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
apache apache-common apache-utils libapache-mod-php4 libfirebird2-super
mime-support php4 php4-common php4-interbase
Suggested packages:
apache-doc apache-ssl apache-perl firebird2-super-server
firebird2-classic-server firebird2-utils-super firebird2-utils-classic
phpdoc php4-pear
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apache apache-common apache-utils ibwebadmin libapache-mod-php4
libfirebird2-super mime-support php4 php4-common php4-interbase
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 4127kB of archives.
After unpacking 11.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

then install firebird2-super-sever

apt-get install firebird2-super-sever