Install Firebird 5.0 over Ubuntu 22.04

Firebird 5.0 brings with it a remarkable series of improvements from many points of view, from performance to security to the management of parallel backups and restores. You can find these well described at the following link: https://ib-aid.com/en/articles/detailed-new-features-of-firebird-5-part-1-improvements-in-optimizer.

So, let’s get down to business, let’s install Firebird 5.0 on a nice Ubuntu 22.04 machine in our server farm.
For further information, please consult the documentation at https://ib-aid.com/download/docs/fb5migrationguide.html#_authorization_from_firebird_2_5_client_libraries

Sequential installation commands:

 wget https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/releases/download/v5.0.0/Firebird-5.0.0.1306-0-linux-x64.tar.gz|tar -zxC ./tmp

 tar -xzvf Firebird-5.0.0.1306-0-linux-x64.tar.gz

 sudo su

 cd Firebird-5.0.0.1306-0-linux-x64/

Verify if Firebird 5.0 is up and running

Let’s make sure we don’t have the service active

sudo systemctl stop firebird.service

We open the configuration file mainly to allow TCP communication with old systems

AuthServer = Srp256, Srp, Legacy_Auth
UserManager = Srp, Legacy_UserManager
WireCrypt = Enabled

nano /opt/firebird/firebird.conf

Let’s start the already legendary Firebird 5.0

sudo systemctl start firebird.service

We check that it’s running just fine

Ok, Firebird is up and running on your system.