>
> > I had no luck at all with the RPM on RH9. I used the tar ball and the
> > install script instead. That worked fine.
> > Alan
>
> Just an idea here - if you're having trouble with using RH9 and Firebird,
> and you've got a spare machine laying around, give FreeBSD a shot.
>
> Installing Firebird on FreeBSD involves these highly complicated commands:
>
> `cd /usr/ports/databases/firebird/`
> `make install`
>
> It finds the suitable source code, downloads, patches, configures, and
> installs, with the above commands.
>
> But it's probably mandated that you use RH9 - just a thought...
>
> N.

it's only mandated now that it's installed
:-)
Alan