Firebird

How to install Firebird SS on SME

1) Enable EPEL repository as from http://wiki.contribs.org/Epel

Here is command for SME8, see there for SME7

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set epel repository \
Name 'Epel - EL5' \
BaseUrl 'http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch' \
MirrorList 'http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch' \
EnableGroups no \
GPGCheck yes \
GPGKey http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL \
Visible no \
status disabled

signal-event yum-modify

2) run this:

yum --enablerepo=epel install firebird-superserver
config set firebird service status enabled
cd /etc/rc7.d
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/e-smith-service S99firebird
service firebird start

Extracted from: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=45447.0