My copy of Ubuntu (10.04) has a client only firebird package.
I think that it should install what you need.

Fulvio Senore


Il 08/09/2011 11.36, grip_2ls ha scritto:

> Hi Helen
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> The client is to go on Linux and the server could be either Linux or Windows.
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> Thanks
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> Neil
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> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie<helebor@...> wrote:
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>> At 01:41 AM 8/09/2011, grip_2ls wrote:
>>> Hi
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>>> I want to use isql from the command line to access remote Firebird database on an Ubuntu server.
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>>> Is it possible to install just the client libraries rather than the whole Firebird server? If so how?
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>> First, say whether the remote client is to be on windows or linux.
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>> ./hb
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