Need advise on firebird3 ubuntu install
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Michael Collier · 2016-05-25 08:43

I'm hoping to evaluate firebird 3 on a linux box, but after doing the
install I had lock file problems and had to login to isql via sudo 
and unable to connect to the server remotely (kept telling me my
username and password need configuring).

I searched web and this forum and found suggestions for chown the
directories, changing some values in .conf file etc.

I tried a whole bunch of them and probably made my system worst, so
going to remove firebird3 and try again. This has all been done on my
development linux box so I can hack as much as I like, but for my live
server I can't afford to take any risks with file security etc.

Does anyone have a definitive set of steps to install on ubuntu that I
can attempt please?

This is the installation procedure I used (I won't link to the fixes
because I'm not sure which would be helpful to users who read this
link in future)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firebird3.0

Thanks

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Michael Collier · 2016-05-26 09:13

In the end I installed firebird3 on an old windows machine and it
works fine, I did try 1 last time doing install on linux but still had
configuration issues. I'll stick with windows until firebird3 is part
of the ubuntu standard software download and install. It would be
helpful to know if anyone here is actually using firebird3 on linux,
connecting remotely, I would assume so. If so I'll keep trying,
between other jobs.