Carlos Ortiz Quiros wrote:

>Hi you all
>
>I would like to know where I could find information
>regarding on how to set up the Firebird database on
>Linux?
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>

I'm not the right person to answer. I'm running on a K6-2 (i586) and the
newer packages are build to i686. I had to compile mine from the
sources and never runned the install scripts by myself.

Anyway, let's try to help...

>That is, downloading the package, installing and
>running the server and connecting thru JDBC I guess.
>
>
>

You can always download the most recent version from
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird.
JDBC drivers are also found there.

>I will be using Suse 9.0 for the Linux distribution
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I believe the rpm packages will be fine with SuSE 9, so, after downloading:

rpm --install firebird*.rpm

If it does not work, download the bz2 packages to a temp directory
and then:

1. Extract

bzip2 -d < firebird*.bz2 | tar xf -

2. Install

cd firebird
./configure

>Very kind for your time and support.
>
>Carlos Adolfo Ortiz Q
>carlosaortiz@...
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>
>

Ivan Cruz