Update: There is now Firebird 2.5 final in experimental
also if you want 2.1 is already in testing and unstable (no need for experimental repository)
Here is my sources.list
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
Add:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
Then:
# apt-get update -t experimental # apt-get install -t experimental firebird2.1-classicor install super-server
# apt-get install -t experimental firebird2.1-classicInstall examples and flamerobin
apt-get install -t experimental firebird2.1-examples flamerobin
follow the examples extaction procedure from this page [Scrooll down and ignore the apt sources.list lines]
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firebird2.1
With firebird2.1-classic i have this error when i try to connect to employee.fdb
Engine Code : 335544653
Engine Message :
cannot attach to password database
This is a caveat with classic server and not a bug in Flamerobin.
This is the recipe to reproduce it:
* install Debian classic-server package
* (before anything else) connect to any database using a direct path
to the database, not server:/path/to/db using any program linked
with libfbembed, for example the firebird-supplied tools (sql,
gfix etc)
- this starts the lock manager as the currently running user
(let's name it 'X', which most probably is *not* 'firebird')
* try to connect to any database either using the server:/path/to/db
connection string, or using an utility that is linked with
libfbclient (which preepends localhost: on raw connection
strings), for example flamerobin
- you can't as that utility would connect via the fb_inet_server,
which runs as user 'firebird' by default and cannot open the
lock files created by the user 'X'.
To avoid this
* always use localhost: in front of any paths. this way the lock
files and the shared memory segment will be owned by the
'firebird' user.
