1. I installed FirebirdSS-1.5.1.4481-0.i686.rpm from
http://firebird.sourceforge.net

2. Thanks for advice I really overlooked the second release file

there is recommended to try NPTL build for Mandrake 10, which I
am going to install.

Alex


--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> At 10:25 AM 1/09/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >I have just installed Mandrake Linux ver. 10.0 and tried to install
> >latest version o firebird server (SS version) into this machine.
> >
> >It should create Firebird user and group but it did not create

them.

> >In services I can see Firebird but stopped. When I try the Start
> >button there appears short notice saying that Firebird was stopped
> >sucessfully and started OK.
> >
> >I am newbie both to Linux and Firebird and need to install third
> >party database application.
> >
> >Can anybody help me?
>
> Yes; but begin at the beginning...reply to both of these questions:
>
> 1. What is the exact file name of the kit that you installed from?
>
> 2. Have you read the release notes, that are in the docs

directory? There

> should be 2 PDF files, one named Firebird_v1.5.ReleaseNotes.pdf,

the other

> named Firebird_v1.5.1.ReleaseNotes.pdf. You need BOTH. The Linux
> installation notes are in _v1.5, while the *corrections* are in

_v1.5.1.

>
> Also, please *ignore* any buttons, etc. that Mandrake

prestidigitated into

> the graphical interface. Should it ever be necessary (which

normally, it

> is not) Firebird is controlled from a shell.
>
> ./heLen