How do you install Firebird SQL in Ubuntu?

[Don Bowen]

Don, if you'd like, we can chat by IM. I think you would benefit from some real-time communication...

If you have an AOL IM account, my screen name is the same as my ubuntuforums user name.

Feel free any time.

Thank you. You're gracious. Those of us who work as technicians in the ed biz are behind firewalls that don't allow instant messaging.
I was able to install the "ISQL" program on the application menu, and it actually works!
you once asked why anyone would want an icon for a command line program, and for me, the answer is to remind me that it exists and maybe even what it does. If I can't see them now and then, I'll forget that they exist.

[scrooge_74]

Install tor and go around your firewall

[Don Bowen]

Install tor and go around your firewall

Your suggestion speaks to the core of this thread.
Sure just go and install something....
well, lets review what I've learned so far:
Programs are installed from the "Add/Remove" programs app or from the Synaptic.
If they are not on either list, they can't be installed (I know that's incorrect, but that's functionally true for my current understanding).
Since TOR doesn't appear on either list, it is impossible to install.
Until I learn how to install things without Synaptic or Add/remove, TOR and other programs not on the guest list are simply out of reach.

[scrooge_74]

Well tor is in the repositories the package is called tor, if you cant find it the only reason would be that the repository where it is has not been enable by you.

If you want to learn how to install things first off all forget about the Add/remove, I never liked and in the past it did not worked well. Install things from synaptics until you get the hang of command line apt-get or aptitude (<--is similar to synaptics but ugly graphics and from command line).

90% of what you need to install is in synaptic in the standard repositories.
another 9% is in third party repositories that you can add to synaptic list of repositories which then becomes 99% of apps, what is left out are programs not that common or too new, those you get the added fun of having to download a tar ball and then compile them, since you are new at linux dont get into compiling stuff till you are more confy with the system, and then is likely you will seldom need to do compiling

[Don Bowen]

Well tor is in the repositories the package is called tor, if you cant find it the only reason would be that the repository where it is has not been enable by you.

If you want to learn how to install things first off all forget about the Add/remove, I never liked and in the past it did not worked well. Install things from synaptics until you get the hang of command line apt-get or aptitude (<--is similar to synaptics but ugly graphics and from command line).

90% of what you need to install is in synaptic in the standard repositories.
another 9% is in third party repositories that you can add to synaptic list of repositories which then becomes 99% of apps, what is left out are programs not that common or too new, those you get the added fun of having to download a tar ball and then compile them, since you are new at linux dont get into compiling stuff till you are more confy with the system, and then is likely you will seldom need to do compiling

I'll look through Synaptic again for TOR. I begin to understand that there are things called "repositories" or safe places where software is setup so that it may be easily installed.
Adding repositories to the list of trusted places in Synaptic seems to be how things are installed.
Learning continues...
If TOR isn't in My Synaptic list (and if I've disabled it, then I surely didn't do it on purpose), then how do I get TOR to show up on this list?

I downloaded Nero for Ubuntu, and it unpacked as a .DEB file. I'm guessing that's short for Debian which is one flavor of Linux installation. It installed with a simple double click, no synaptic, no add/remove.... that means that it is possible to install things directly though I recognize it's progably safer/easier to use repositories.

I'll go look for TOR again on the Synaptic list.

[Don Bowen]

more installing stuff...

I was looking to download VLC for Ubuntu. It's my fav media player, and sure enough, they have a version 1.0 for it.... but... it gives the following instruction...

Open Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager). In Settings -> Repositories, make sure you have a "multiverse" repository activated.

well I went to that menu in Synaptic, and I can guess that they want me to add some repository to a list somewhere.
What's interesting to me is that they don't name the URL for multiverse specifically
Nor do they tell me where the reference to Multiverse goes....
What does it mean to have "multiverse repository activated"?
What steps do you take to accomplish that?

[Don Bowen]

I'll look through Synaptic again for TOR. I begin to understand that there are things called "repositories" or safe places where software is setup so that it may be easily installed.
Adding repositories to the list of trusted places in Synaptic seems to be how things are installed.
Learning continues...
If TOR isn't in My Synaptic list (and if I've disabled it, then I surely didn't do it on purpose), then how do I get TOR to show up on this list?

I downloaded Nero for Ubuntu, and it unpacked as a .DEB file. I'm guessing that's short for Debian which is one flavor of Linux installation. It installed with a simple double click, no synaptic, no add/remove.... that means that it is possible to install things directly though I recognize it's progably safer/easier to use repositories.

I'll go look for TOR again on the Synaptic list.

TOR comes in when you want to download some other software that is probably a front end for TOR.
It's called VISI something I think.
It's never listed as TOR all by itself...
Is that what you meant to install?

[Don Bowen]

Yes. Enter this command into a terminal:

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/firebird.list

In front of line 3, add a comment mark # so that it looks like "# sudo...." Save and exit the file, then run

sudo apt-get update

You should now be able to install Firebird.

Edit: Your sources.list looks fine.

what did you mean by "in front of line 3?"

[scrooge_74]

Good to see you are learning

A bit of an explanation here will help you out.

Repositories are server which have all the packages you need for installing stuff (dependencies, libraries, etc ,etc not just the program you want)

Synaptic has to go look at a file in /etc/apt/ called sources.list

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free


Any line that has a # in front, is what is called commented out, apt or synaptic wont use it since the system takes the # symbol as a comment, you could write stuff in there if you want to remember something which wont make any sense to the system but since it has the # symbol it wont get read or interpreted by it.


So when it told you that some repositories in ubuntu are not enable is that they have the # symbol in front you could do it manually in that file, but go into synaptic>configuration>repositories, you can enable them there, then you do a package reload, and all the other packages in that repositories will show up

Tor is a proxy system to let you bypass blocks on the system, for more info:

htt://www.torproject.org/

[Don Bowen]

Good to see you are learning

A bit of an explanation here will help you out.

Repositories are server which have all the packages you need for installing stuff (dependencies, libraries, etc ,etc not just the program you want)

Synaptic has to go look at a file in /etc/apt/ called sources.list

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free


Any line that has a # in front, is what is called commented out, apt or synaptic wont use it since the system takes the # symbol as a comment, you could write stuff in there if you want to remember something which wont make any sense to the system but since it has the # symbol it wont get read or interpreted by it.


So when it told you that some repositories in ubuntu are not enable is that they have the # symbol in front you could do it manually in that file, but go into synaptic>configuration>repositories, you can enable them there, then you do a package reload, and all the other packages in that repositories will show up

Tor is a proxy system to let you bypass blocks on the system, for more info:

htt://www.torproject.org/

well there is no "configuration" menu visible in synaptic.
The Menu bar reads:
file, edit, packages, settings, help.
I don't see it under settings, so I have to ask...
what do you mean?