--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Fidel Viegas"
<fidel.viegas@...> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

But if you use Ubuntu 7.10, do you have libstdc++.so.5 on your
machine? I got this:

"Starting Firebird server: /opt/firebird/bin/fbmgr.bin: error while
loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory"

And on my machine I find only libstdc++.so.6. And I very much
suspect that I shouldn't replace this version with an older one!

> 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.
>

Did that first thing (before unpacking the version from the
website).

Thank you for your detailed instructions - now if you or somebody
else can tell me how to get around the libstdc++ version problem, I
should be all set.

Regards,
Herta