How To Install firebird3.0-server on Debian 10

Learn how to install firebird3.0-server on Debian 10 with this tutorial. firebird3.0-server is Firebird Server - an RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird3.0-server on Debian 10.

What is firebird3.0-server

firebird3.0-server is:

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-99 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 on production systems under a variety of names since 1981.

This package contains the server binary as well as its configuration files. The default mode of operation is the so called “super”, which is a single-threaded server process with shared database cache between connections. The two other operation modes – “classic” (separate process/cache for each connection) and “superclassic” (separate thread/cache for each connection) are also available via configuration options.

There are three methods to install firebird3.0-server on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install firebird3.0-server Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install firebird3.0-server using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install firebird3.0-server

Install firebird3.0-server Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install firebird3.0-server using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install firebird3.0-server

Install firebird3.0-server Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install firebird3.0-server using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install firebird3.0-server

How To Uninstall firebird3.0-server on Debian 10

To uninstall only the firebird3.0-server package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove firebird3.0-server

Uninstall firebird3.0-server And Its Dependencies

To uninstall firebird3.0-server and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove firebird3.0-server

Remove firebird3.0-server Configurations and Data

To remove firebird3.0-server configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge firebird3.0-server

Remove firebird3.0-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove firebird3.0-server configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge firebird3.0-server

Dependencies

firebird3.0-server have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install firebird3.0-server package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.