I N S T A L L A T I O N N O T E S

where library is: fbclient | gds32

'-z' can be used with any other option, prints version.

Version information and shared library counts are handled automatically. You may provide the -f[orce] option to override version checks.

Caution

If you -f[orce] the installation, it could break another Firebird or InterBase® version already installed. You might have to reboot the machine in order to finalize the copy.

For more details, see the document README.Win32LibraryInstallation.txt which is located in either the root of your installation path or in ..\doc.

Cleaning up release candidate installs

It should be noted that the installer removes fbclient.dll from the <system> directory if the file is found there. The installer also removes the deprecated HKLM\Software\FirebirdSQL registry key.

Using the Win32 Firebird Installer

This is the easy one.

Just run the executable and respond to the dialogs. After you have answered about four dialogs, you should see one with a drop-down list box which--when dropped down--looks similar to this. This really is the last chance you'll have to choose the installation you want:

Choose the installation you want and hit "Next" to carry on responding to dialogs.

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