INSTALLATION NOTES

Next time 'skywalker' logs on, he can start working with firebird databases.

To list the groups that a user belongs to, type the following at the command line:

$ groups

Warning

We have been informed of a “gotcha” with the usermod syntax in the Debian family of Linux platforms ( including Ubuntu). The switches for this command are non-standard and the above usage will remove the user from all other groups.

Please study the online documentation for your distro to work out the syntax you need to add a user to a group in Debian.

Uninstalling on Linux

If you need to uninstall, do it as root user. The following examples use Classic server but the same holds true for SuperServer by replacing the CS with SS.

Uninstalling an RPM package

For rpm packages:

$rpm -e FirebirdCS-2.1.n

Uninstalling a tarball installation

for the .tar.gz install:

$/opt/firebird/bin/uninstall.sh

Solaris

Install Firebird Classic & SuperServer on Solaris 2.7 Sparc, not currently available. Please refer older releasenotes as a reference to 2.0 installations.

MacOS X

Install Firebird Classic on MacOS X / Darwin, not currently available. Please refer to older releasenotes as a reference to 2.0 installations.

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INSTALLATION NOTES

FreeBSD

Not currently available. Please refer to older releasenotes as a reference to 2.0 installations.

Debian

Not currently available. Please refer to the relevant pages at the Debian site for your Debian version and Firebird 2.0 build.

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