How To Install firebird on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird in Fedora 36. firebird is SQL relational database management system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on Fedora 36.

What is `firebird`

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.

We can use yum or dnf to install firebird on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firebird.

Install firebird on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install firebird using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install firebird

Install firebird on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install firebird using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install firebird

How To Uninstall firebird on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the firebird package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove firebird

firebird Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/firebird
/etc/firebird/databases.conf
/etc/firebird/fbtrace.conf
/etc/firebird/firebird.conf
/etc/firebird/plugins.conf
/etc/firebird/replication.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/firebird
/run/firebird
/run/firebird/fb_guard
/usr/bin/fbtracemgr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/cb8b2ba266a97760bc1620cd5aeb6b1e9c9e80
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/be5f892bc7b8fb134070ea2c89d641bb574869
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/332dcb7e7092207ce280730f56c54e944adfe8
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/a29ccb631d01a4b70fae5f68a009eecec0f76d
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/d120f1efc617ced396af51585b0b878070d9d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/606a85acea1f2762b141fb64b7909c4c5fdfb5
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/cc37ea723c97373b7707b610f1a6ab7f6e8436
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/ce53830d3d59ce2b7c79d0d70eb9a5cc137fae
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/1207e20f81eefd019ba845ec51031389490a37
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/82f8196338decb68678ec4627aa735540df552
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/3fea74326ee1c07440e6053d170767c25d81a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/96e7a4fb3ac7b4006e08ba09293ba9e239cf6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/cc61c4f27fd835cc21bce17746e3e1f0dc3523
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/2e127e997f4b2a2238f8d44122cfa9c2b2132b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/firebird.service
/usr/lib64/firebird
/usr/lib64/firebird/intl
/usr/lib64/firebird/intl/fbintl
/usr/lib64/firebird/intl/fbintl.conf
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libChaCha.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libEngine13.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libLegacy_Auth.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libLegacy_UserManager.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libSrp.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libfbtrace.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libudr_engine.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr/libudf_compat.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr/libudrcpp_example.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr/udf_compat.sql
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr_engine.conf
/usr/sbin/fb_lock_print
/usr/sbin/fbguard
/usr/sbin/firebird
/usr/share/doc/firebird/IDPLicense.txt
/usr/share/doc/firebird/IPLicense.txt
/usr/share/doc/firebird/README.Fedora
/usr/share/firebird
/var/lib/firebird
/var/lib/firebird/data
/var/lib/firebird/secdb
/var/lib/firebird/secdb/security4.fdb
/var/lib/firebird/system
/var/lib/firebird/system/firebird.msg
/var/lib/firebird/system/help.fdb
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata/metaZones.res
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata/timezoneTypes.res
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata/windowsZones.res
/var/lib/firebird/tzdata/zoneinfo64.res
/var/log/firebird
/var/log/firebird/firebird.log

References

firebird website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).