How To Install firebird on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on Fedora 34.
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 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firebird.
Install firebird on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install firebird using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install firebird
Install firebird on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 34
To uninstall only the firebird package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove firebird
firebird Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/firebird
/etc/firebird/databases.conf
/etc/firebird/fbtrace.conf
/etc/firebird/firebird.conf
/etc/firebird/plugins.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/firebird
/usr/bin/fbtracemgr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/2878e4ce983b51df30248e7cf3b390ef8c6242
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/7219e1a3e401ff569aabb0fcbec1b2f33fcf3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/033e836297a3a7c9311ad6169eb6fe2571f32a
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/315af33b1ce981174bf3c4bdd207320da104fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/f6f04a3f09a38faad02566beb3c89982b01dac
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/920e4a6188ab67cd7f50b064911dd30d207a50
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/9d4b03050e7f0c51be8e27deb452a55377ab22
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/8a36de8744156468ed9e2034216182f0729178
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/d5edaa4c3b23943c92fc08b128a679174d4de8
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/59b210d40db9faad7f8920debfec458bae8737
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/5160cc9c1b34e66302e22315d64ddbede10bc1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/aeebf2f2f5fe7839d7f1efa22cedf834f89636
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/14e190770710882de1e85a236c8734c522c873
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/ff5b3832ebf9d4e64280fe2ff80e62bf028212
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/840aa9cc4eea16f4ef7af9bc3e73472de367f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/e94a0884ee892928c8e220ad8059c96465c043
/usr/lib/systemd/system/firebird-superserver.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/libCryptKeyHolder_example.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libDbCrypt_example.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/libEngine12.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/libudrcpp_example.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/plugins/udr_engine.conf
/usr/lib64/firebird/udf
/usr/lib64/firebird/udf/fbudf.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/udf/fbudf.sql
/usr/lib64/firebird/udf/ib_udf.so
/usr/lib64/firebird/udf/ib_udf.sql
/usr/lib64/firebird/udf/ib_udf2.sql
/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
/usr/share/firebird/misc
/usr/share/firebird/misc/firebird-classic.socket
/usr/share/firebird/misc/[email protected]
/usr/share/firebird/misc/firebird-superserver.service
/usr/share/firebird/misc/intl.sql
/usr/share/firebird/misc/upgrade
/usr/share/firebird/misc/upgrade/security
/usr/share/firebird/misc/upgrade/security/security_database.sql
/usr/share/firebird/misc/upgrade/security/security_database.txt
/var/lib/firebird
/var/lib/firebird/data
/var/lib/firebird/secdb
/var/lib/firebird/secdb/security3.fdb
/var/lib/firebird/system
/var/lib/firebird/system/firebird.msg
/var/lib/firebird/system/help.fdb
/var/log/firebird
/var/log/firebird/firebird.log
/var/run/firebird
/var/run/firebird/fb_guard
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.