Comments on: How to install Firebird on Ubuntu 20.04/ 18.04?

By: Reinaldo P.

Reinaldo P. — Fri, 14 May 2021 13:18:00 +0000

Hi @angeloma , I am trying to install http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-linux-amd64/2.5.5-Release/FirebirdCS-2.5.5.26952-0.amd64.tar.gz/download in Linux Focal 20.04.02 and I receive message “Installation complet” after input password for SYSDBA but I cant see service running. Can you have a trick to check? Thank´s

By: angeloma

angeloma — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 20:58:15 +0000

In reply to Piotr Frankowski. Hi, the repository does work with UBuntu 18.04 Bionic Look this: Please check your system

By: Piotr Frankowski

Piotr Frankowski — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 20:33:58 +0000

Hi Angeloma,
You have delivered wrong commands and instructions. There are no dedicated rep for 18.04, as mentioned above. Please update it or just remove at all, otherwise people spend time doing something pointless.

By: Piotr Frankowski

Piotr Frankowski — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:10:01 +0000

Hello Angeloma,

On Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS all the time, either FB 2.5 or 3.0 I get this:

E: The repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ppa/ubuntu bionic Release’ does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
==
What should be done in this case?
Would be grateful for the help.
Piotr

By: Lukasz Gag

Lukasz Gag — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 19:27:48 +0000

On Ubuntu 18 WSL v2 where I installing, have that :

Setting up firebird3.0-server (3.0.5.33100.ds4-2ubuntu1) …
Statement failed, SQLSTATE = HY000
operating system directive mmap failed
-Exec format error
dpkg: error processing package firebird3.0-server (–configure):
installed firebird3.0-server package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) …
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) …
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.41) …
Errors were encountered while processing:
firebird3.0-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

what is wrong?

By: angeloma

angeloma — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 19:07:27 +0000

In reply to Altan Bozoglu. Check your firewall settings on the server.

By: Altan Bozoglu

Altan Bozoglu — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 14:58:21 +0000

Hi;
Thank you. Thanks to you for the first time, I ran firebird 3.0 on a clean ubuntu server. Everything is perfect on the server command line. I get an error if I want to start the remote database. I deleted the line “#RemoteBindAddress = localhost” in firebird.conf. What more can I try besides?
Error Message: “-Your user name and password are not defined. Ask your database administrator to set up a Firebird login.
Details: GDS error code: 335544472 ”
Server: 192.168.5.10:/var/lib/firebird/3.0/data/first_database.fdb
User: SYSDBA
Password: angelo123