Installing Firebird ODBC driver on Ubuntu
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard for accessing databases. ODBC is independent of programming language, database system and operating system. If we have it available in Ubuntu, we should install as follows: sudo apt-get install unixodbc unixodbc-dev The next thing we are going todo is install the driver we want to use to connect via ODBC. In this case we will install Firebird. The first thing you have to do is download the driver for Firebird: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/odbc-driver/ In our case we have chosen: OdbcFb-LIB-2.0.0151.i686.gz (Linux x86) Unpack the file " libOdbcFb.so" and copy to: /usr/lib Then we make sure that we have installed the Firebird client library: sudo apt-get install libfbclient2 Perhaps Openoffice and other programs insist on using a driver with the name "libgds.so" to connect to the Firebird database. If this happens we will create a symbolic link as follows: ln -s /usr/lib/libfbclient.so.2 /usr/lib/l...