How to install Firebird 2.5 on Ubuntu

Source https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firebird2.5

In Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Firebird 2.5.0 is included by default but is not the final release (just the Release Canditate imported from Debian at that time)

The Firebird2.5 Final package (version 2.5.0) for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick and 10.04 Lucid is located into this repository (ppa)

The repository must be added into sources.list , Here is the example for Maverick

sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list.d/firebird.list and you should add these lines

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ppa/ubuntu maverick main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ppa/ubuntu maverick main You need to import my gpg key

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com ea316a2f8d6bd55554c23f680be6d09eef648708 Then you need to update the cache repository

sudo apt-get update Here is how you can inspect the firebird2.5 related packages

apt-cache search firebird2.5-* Install the super server package (you will be asked about the SYSDBA password and what service to enable :Super Server , Classic or new SuperClassic )

sudo apt-get install firebird2.5-super The following extra packages will be installed:

firebird2.5-common firebird2.5-common-doc firebird2.5-dev firebird2.5-server-common libfbclient2 libib-util

Suggested packages:

libfbembed2.5 firebird2.5-examples firebird2.5-doc

The following NEW packages will be installed:

firebird2.5-server-common firebird2.5-super

The following packages will be upgraded:

firebird2.5-common firebird2.5-common-doc firebird2.5-dev libfbclient2 libib-util

5 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded. Need to get 5,442kB of archives. After this operation, 11.3MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Or install Classic or SuperClassic if you have more than one cpu (dual core or SMP machine) and want SMP support

sudo apt-get install firebird2.5-classic or

sudo apt-get install firebird2.5-superclassic You need to configure the package after is installed

sudo dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.5-super Install the examples and dev files

sudo apt-get install firebird2.5-examples firebird2.5-dev The employee.fdb archive will be under this dir /usr/share/doc/firebird2.1-examples/examples/empbuild/

cd /usr/share/doc/firebird2.5-examples/examples/empbuild/ sudo gunzip employee.fdb.gz sudo chown firebird.firebird employee.fdb sudo mv employee.fdb /var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/ Connect to database using the isql-fb console

$ isql-fb SQL> connect «/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/employee.fdb » user 'SYSDBA' password 'SYSDBApassword'; always use localhost: in front in front of db path when using classic or superclassic in 2.5 this way the lock files and the shared memory segment will be owned by the 'firebird' user. Another alternative is to add yourself to firebird group

$ sudo adduser `id -un` firebird Then connect to the db in superclassic or classic

$ isql-fb SQL> connect «localhost:/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/employee.fdb » user 'SYSDBA' password 'SYSDBApassword'; If all is ok then you will have the message with what database connected and what user and ready to use sql prompt

Database: «/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/employee.fdb », User: SYSDBA SQL> Now you can check the server version and the tables

SQL> show tables;

     COUNTRY                                CUSTOMER
     DEPARTMENT                             EMPLOYEE
     EMPLOYEE_PROJECT                       JOB
     PROJECT                                PROJ_DEPT_BUDGET
     SALARY_HISTORY                         SALES

SQL> show version; ISQL Version: LI-V2.5.0.* Firebird 2.5 Server version: Firebird/linux Intel (access method), version «LI-V2.5.0.* Firebird 2.5» Firebird/linux Intel (remote server), version «LI-V2.5.0.* Firebird 2.5/tcp (eeepc)/P11» Firebird/linux Intel (remote interface), version «LI-V2.5.0.* Firebird 2.5 Release Candidate 2/tcp (eeepc)/P11» on disk structure version 11.1 To create a new database

SQL> create database «/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/first_database.fdb» user 'SYSDBA' password 'SYSDBAPASSWORD'; SQL> connect «/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/first_database.fdb» user 'SYSDBA' password 'masterkey'; Commit current transaction (y/n)?y Committing. Database: «/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/first_database.fdb», User: SYSDBA SQL> If you want to create a simple table then insert 1-2 rows and select from it here is one example

SQL> CREATE TABLE TEST (ID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, NAME VARCHAR(20)); SQL> show tables;

     TEST

SQL> INSERT INTO TEST VALUES (1, 'John'); SQL> INSERT INTO TEST VALUES (2, 'Joe'); SQL> select * from test;

        ID NAME                 

         1 John                 
         2 Joe 

To quit the isql-fb console type quit

SQL> quit CON>; For a good open source GUI admin tool you might check the flamerobin administration tool included in ubuntu repository can be installed by an simple

sudo apt-get install flamerobin Then use it from the menu Applications→Programming→ FlameRobin

To use firebird with php , you will need the php5 driver

sudo apt-get install php5-interbase sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Next if you need to install an php administration tool like Firebird Web Admin

sudo apt-get install git-core git clone git:github.com/mariuz/FirebirdWebAdmin.git mv FirebirdWebAdmin/firebirdwebadmin /var/www/firebirdwebadmin and load it in the browser http://localhost/firebirdwebadmin It should look like this screen shot =Other Firebird Related Guides= You can start with the main Firebird documentation. To use Ruby language with firebird I wrote a tutorial on howto install the stable driver. For Ruby on Rails i wrote howto install the Firebird Active Record Adapter and start an application. To use python you must use the official firebird python driver and here is howto install and test it if it works. For Lazarus IDE i wrote an visual guide on howto use the database aware components in a simple application that uses Firebird. Lua Language does have a good driver and there is a Getting started guide with firebird on ubuntu Firebird2.5 (последним исправлял(а) Mariuz 2010-11-24 12:36:41)