3.2.6. Installing on Linux and other Unix-like platforms

In all cases, read the Release Notes for the Firebird version you’re going to install. There may be significant variations from release to release of any Posix operating system, especially the open source ones. Where possible, the build engineers for each Firebird version have attempted to document any known issues.

Aside from being packaged with the download kits, Release Notes for all officially released versions of Firebird can also be found at https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/release-notes/.

If you have a Linux distribution that supports rpm installs, consult the appropriate platform documentation for instructions about using RPM Package Manager. In most distributions you will have the choice of performing the install from a command shell or through a GUI interface.

For Linux distributions that cannot process rpm programs, and for Unix flavours for which no .rpm kit is provided, use the .tar.gz kit. Quite often, installation is just a matter of untarring the archive and running install.sh. In some cases, the Release Notes or packed Readmes may instruct you to edit the scripts and make some manual adjustments.