skoczian wrote:

> But that means you didn't use the package provided by Ubuntu,
> right?
> I don't much like working against the package management, but
>in this case I think I'll try it.

Oops, forget to mention that. Yes, the one from the package management
did not work for me either. I downloaded the one from the website and
installed. That solved my problem, and it is running really nice.

If you want to remove firebird afterwards, just go to /opt/firebird/bin/
and type "sudo sh uninstall.sh", that will uninstall firebird.

It works better with the distro from the firebirdsql.org web site.

Finally, don't forget to clean all the firebird from the package
management. Specially the one for firebird-common. That caused me
problems as well when trying to connect to the database using python.

Clean everything that the package manager installed. Just use Synaptic
adapter Package Manager to do that.

now, as for the place to store your database, I just created a folder
under /opt named databases and changed owner and group to firebird

sudo chown firebird:firebird /opt/databases

Oh, don't forget to do "sudo chmod 777 /opt/databases" so that you are
able to create your databases in that path.

Hope that helps.

All the best,

Fidel.