David,

D> I picked up flamerobin for linux tonight to give it a test drive, but it
D> requires the shared object file libgds.so, which I do not have on my
D> system.

D> I am currently using Firebird 1.5.1 with jaybird drivers.

D> Is libgds.so supposed to be part of the regular firebird installation,
D> or is it something that comes with flamerobin?

FlameRobin needs the Firebird client library to work in all platforms.
There aren't plans to deploy the Firebird client library with FlameRobin.

Ciao
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Nando Dessena
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