At 11:34 PM 22/11/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>I'm using the .RPM install of RC7 instead of .TAR on RH9. Here's
>the install (from the command line):
>
>rpm -Uvh FirebirdSS-1.5.0.4027-RC7.i686.rpm
>
>Use -ivh instead if FB is already installed (be sure to shut down
>the server first).
>
>FB then gets installed into /opt/firebird

Yes, the rpm would have been much simpler for Dixon, as a Linux
newbie. The purpose of Pavel's configurable script was for testing - I
guess the assumption was too easily made that the user would know the
difference between a shell script and a GUI installer. There probably
should be a louder warning for Linux newbies to avoid the shell script
until they understand better what's going on.

It's important to get a good, robust, configurable script worked up,
because fewer members of the Linux constellation support RPM now, or do so
in idiosyncratic ways. We're probably justified in thinking RPM might
eventually disappear, given the current musical chairs with control of the
main distros.

heLen