At 09:10 AM 18/02/2012, hrefofficemanager wrote:

>FYI:
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>Installing onto 64-bit hardware, CentOS 6.2, from
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>http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-linux-amd64/2.5.1-Release/FirebirdSS-2.5.1.26351-0.amd64.rpm/download
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>gives this error (Firefox browser -> RPM manager alert) :
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>Package /tmp/Firebird...
>has incompatible architecture amd64. Valid architectures are ['ia32e', 'x86_64', 'athlon', 'i686', 'i586', 'i486', 'i386', 'noarch']
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>I saw a note elsewhere (December 2011 message) where someone else could not install but did not see a detailed reason. That person just got a STOP error.
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>Anyway it seems wrong that the RPM would not work. The 32-bit RPM ran without complaints, fwiw.

It's a localised (and not very predictable) bug in your RPM. The RPM developers shift the goalposts constantly and it just aint worth the trouble. I gave up trying to use the RPM kits *years ago*. If you're installing the regular Firebird package, use the tarball kit. It "just works" on any Linux. (Well, I've not tried any of the 64-bit kits...but plenty of people do!)

./heLen