At 03:20 PM 11/06/2005 +1000, you wrote:

>Hi to all,
>
>I need to set up FB 1.5 on a Fedora 3 laptop in super server mode.
>
>Which installation file should I down load from the Fire Bird home page ?

Ignore the downloads listed at the SF project page.

Go to the official link page for Firebird downloads at

http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=files&id=engine

and download this one:

* 25th December 2004 SuperServer for Linux NPTL V1.5.2 (.rpm) (2.7mb)

>Could any one suggest a good graphical user interface that runs under
>Linux as I need to be able to do database adjustments, maintenance, back
>ups etc

You could see whether FlameRobin is ready to do what you need. Otherwise,
several of the established Windows tools run in Wine. Or just run a
crossover category 5 cable from your Windows box to the laptop and use your
fave Windows client directly.

>Also are there any gotchas running and using FB on a Fedora environment
>that we should be aware about.

There's no "gotcha list" yet - as long as you run the NPTL
build. :-) Can't tell from your posting whether you are a **x newbie but,
if so, better arm yourself with info on how to set filesystem permissions.

>One more question, am I correct in that I just back up my database on
>the windows machine that it currently resides on and then restore it on
>the Linux (Fedora) machine.

Yes.

>What would the command strings be to do this ?

On Windows (from the bin directory):

gbak -b -t d:\path\to\mydatabase.fdb x:\backups\mydatabase.fbk -u sysdba
-pass whatever

Restoring on Linux (from the /bin directory):

./gbak -c /yourMountedDevice/backups/mydatabase.fbk
/your/permitted/data/path/mydatabase.fdb -u newowner -pass whatever

Note the dot-slash.

./hb