The reason I felt it was not installed correctly was because of the
response, "package FirebirdCS-0_9-4p1_i386.rpm is not installed" and the
fact that using /opt/interbase/bin/isql resulted in a message saying that it
was not a command.

At first, I assumed that I was using isql wrong, but when the rpm told me it
wasn't installed, I decided I was out of my league and emailed for help...

Should 'isql' work similar to the 'mysql' command for MySQL?

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Reeves [mailto:paul@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 1:45 PM
To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ib-support] install problem


"Ross, Matt" wrote:

>
> I'm having difficulty installing Firebird SQL server. There doesn't seem

to

> be any info reguarding it that I can find...
> This is on an upgraded SuSE 7.0 dist.
> FYI, I'm a linux newbie that was assigned to find a new DBMS with a

lighter

> footprint than Oracle for our smaller web apps, which will be run under
> SuSE, as we finally got the go-ahead to switch from IIS and MS SQL Server.
>
> root@heinlein:/usr/local/httpd/sql > rpm -i FirebirdCS-0_9-4p1_i386.rpm
> package FirebirdCS-0.9-4p1 is already installed
> root@heinlein:/usr/local/httpd/sql > rpm -y FirebirdCS-0_9-4p1_i386.rpm
> package FirebirdCS-0_9-4p1_i386.rpm is not installed
> root@heinlein:/usr/local/httpd/sql > rpm -i FirebirdCS-0_9-4p1_i386.rpm
> package FirebirdCS-0.9-4p1 is already installed
>

I'm at a loss to see the problem. The Classic version (CS) installs and runs
without any real problems that I can recall. In fact it is such a no-brainer
that there has to be something really simple that you have overlooked.

FWIW, I installed exactly the same rpm on my SuSE 7.0 box about three weeks
ago.
Never used it since then - until now, when I tested it. Connected and
selected
without problem. There are no known problems with running Firebird on SuSE
7.0
(which is more than can be said for RedHat 7.0).

So, question is, Why don't you think it is installed correctly?

Have you tried executing this in a console window:

/opt/interbase/bin/isql /opt/interbase/examples/employee.gdb

If it doesn't work, what error message are you getting?


Paul
--

Paul Reeves
http://www.ibphoenix.com
taking InterBase further


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