>
> I guess this is the right one (I have FreeBSD 5.2.1 and 5.4
> at hand), but someone could correct the web page.
>
> When I look via sf.net project page I see these three packages:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/firebird-1.5.2-fbsd48.tgz
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/firebird-1.5.2-fbsd521.tbz
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/firebird-1.5.2-fbsd53.tbz
>
> So, now I'm somewhat confused. What is the status of FreeBSD
> packages?
> Is this package for FreeBSD 5.3 ok? What can I do if I want
> to run FreeBSD 5.4, should I build Firebird from source?
>

You can run the 5.3 binary on 5.4 no problems.

FreeBSD has the ports tree. It saves you finding correct binaries,
dependencies, etc. It's one command away!

To install Firebird 1.5.2 on any version on FreeBSD, with all patches,
downloading and installing any dependencies, do the following:

`cd /usr/ports/database/firebird-server`
`make install`

Nige.