Firebird3.0

This is Firebird 3.0.x is imported from debian testing repository

The stable package (version 3.0.x) for Ubuntu LTS releases is located into this repository (ppa)

The repository must be added this way,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mapopa/firebird3.0
sudo apt-get update

Here is how you can inspect the firebird3.0 related packages

apt-cache search firebird3.0

Install the super server package (you will be asked about the SYSDBA password)

sudo apt-get install firebird3.0-server
The following extra packages will be installed:
  firebird3.0-common firebird3.0-common-doc firebird3.0-utils libfbclient2 libib-util
Suggested packages:
  firebird3.0-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firebird3.0-common firebird3.0-common-doc firebird3.0-server firebird3.0-utils libfbclient2 libib-util
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,889kB of archives.
After this operation, 13.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

You need to configure the package after is installed

sudo dpkg-reconfigure firebird3.0-server

Install the examples and dev files

sudo apt-get install firebird3.0-examples firebird-dev

The employee.fdb archive will be under this dir /usr/share/doc/firebird3.0-examples/examples/empbuild/

cd /usr/share/doc/firebird3.0-examples/examples/empbuild/
sudo gunzip employee.fdb.gz
sudo chown firebird.firebird employee.fdb
sudo mv employee.fdb /var/lib/firebird/3.0/data/

Connect to database using the isql-fb console

$ isql-fb
SQL> connect "/var/lib/firebird/3.0/data/employee.fdb " user 'SYSDBA' password 'SYSDBApassword';

If all is ok then you will have the message with what database connected and what user and ready to use sql prompt

Database:  "/var/lib/firebird/3.0/data/employee.fdb ", User: SYSDBA
SQL>

Now you can check the server version and the tables

SQL> show tables;
       COUNTRY                                CUSTOMER
       DEPARTMENT                             EMPLOYEE
       EMPLOYEE_PROJECT                       JOB
       PROJECT                                PROJ_DEPT_BUDGET
       SALARY_HISTORY                         SALES

SQL> show version;
ISQL Version: LI-T3.0.0.28869 Firebird 3.0 Unstable
Server version:
Firebird/Linux/AMD/Intel/x64 (access method), version "LI-T3.0.0.28869 Firebird 3.0 Unstable"
Firebird/Linux/AMD/Intel/x64 (remote server), version "LI-T3.0.0.28869 Firebird 3.0 Unstable/tcp (borkstationx64)/P13"
Firebird/Linux/AMD/Intel/x64 (remote interface), version "LI-T3.0.0.28869 Firebird 3.0 Unstable/tcp (borkstationx64)/P13"
on disk structure version 12.0

To create a new database

SQL> create database "/var/lib/firebird/3.0/data/first_database.fdb" user 'SYSDBA' password 'SYSDBAPASSWORD';
SQL> connect "/var/lib/firebird/3.0/data/first_database.fdb" user 'SYSDBA' password 'masterkey';
Commit current transaction (y/n)?y
Committing.
Database:  "/var/lib/firebird/3.0/data/first_database.fdb", User: SYSDBA
SQL>

If you want to create a simple table then insert 1-2 rows and select from it here is one example

SQL> CREATE TABLE TEST (ID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, NAME VARCHAR(20));
SQL> show tables;
       TEST
SQL> INSERT INTO TEST VALUES (1, 'John');
SQL> INSERT INTO TEST VALUES (2, 'Joe');
SQL> select * from test;

          ID NAME                 
============ ==================== 
           1 John                 
           2 Joe

To quit the isql-fb console type quit

SQL> quit
CON>;

For a good open source GUI admin tool you might check the flamerobin administration tool included in ubuntu repository can be installed by an simple

sudo apt-get install flamerobin

Then use it from the menu Applications->Programming-> FlameRobin

To use firebird with php , you will need the php5 driver

sudo apt-get install php5-interbase libapache2-mod-php5
sudo php5enmod interbase
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Next if you need to install an php administration tool like Firebird Web Admin

sudo apt-get install git-core
git clone git://github.com/mariuz/firebirdwebadmin.git 
mv firebirdwebadmin /var/www/html/firebirdwebadmin

and load it in the browser http://localhost/firebirdwebadmin

It should look like this screen shot

=Other Firebird Related Guides=

You can start with the main Firebird documentation.

To use Ruby language with firebird I wrote a tutorial on howto install the stable driver.

For Ruby on Rails i wrote howto install the Firebird Active Record Adapter and start an application.

To use python you must use the official stable firebird python driver and here is howto install and use the driver.

For Lazarus IDE i wrote an visual guide on howto use the database aware components in a simple application that uses Firebird.

Lua Language does have a good driver and there is a Getting started guide with firebird on ubuntu

Server Side Javascript is served with the help of a pure Javascript nodejs driver

Ubuntu Documentation