Thank you all for your comments. In the end I just installed the lot and didn't turn on the server part.

Thanks

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--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
>
> At 09:36 PM 8/09/2011, you wrote:
> >Hi Helen
> >
> >The client is to go on Linux and the server could be either Linux or Windows.
>
> Download the bz2 superserver kit and untar it in your home directory.
> In /opt, create a firebird directory and beneath it, firebird/bin and firebird/intl.
> Copy firebird.msg into /opt/firebird, copy libfbclient.so and isql into /opt/firebird/bin, copy the icu libraries into /opt/firebird/intl. (The last I'm slightly doubtful about - you might need symlinks to those from /opt/firebird/bin).
> Set ownership and permissions on files and directories for the user or group that needs the access. For simplicity, create a firebird group and join your regular user name into it before you start.
>
> This won't be conformant with Debian rules about what goes where. As a side-note, I confess I gave up on the deb package when installing Classic server 2.1.4 as it was a total bird's nest. For 2.5 (on Maverick) I just used the conventional Linux tarball install (with the gentoo-built binaries) and the scripts and it went perfectly.
>
> ./hb
>