Firebird 2.5.3 from EPEL 7 stable repository

EPEL 7 left the beta stage so you can install Firebird 2.5.3 packages for Centos/RHEL 7 from stable repository

sudo yum install http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-1.noarch.rpm

yum –enablerepo=epel install firebird-superclassic

and since EPEL 7 use Systemd, you can use Systemd to enable the service
and stop or start it
read the README provided :
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/firebird.git/tree/README.Fedora?h=epel7

you also have classic and superserver
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/repoview/firebird.html
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/repoview/firebird-classic.html
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/repoview/firebird-superserver.html

Converting a #MySQL database to Firebird Part1 (from Lamp to Flaps)

Milan Babuskov wrote on his blog about his first steps in moving one host from Mysql to Firebird

I have a heavy-used website powered by LAMP stack (CentOS Linux,
Apache 2, MySQL and PHP). It started on a shared hosting so I had to
use MySQL. Year and a half later, I switched shared, virtual hosting
and not run it on a dedicated server. I decided to try Firebird to see
how it performs and also how it compares to MySQL in RAM usage, disk
usage, etc.

Firebird packages for Fedora, Centos, RHEL

It’s official now, Philippe Makowski is the maintainer of Firebird packages for Fedora and Epel (Centos and RHEL packages) and Firebird packages get pushed into Fedora repositories.

Here is the guide for Centos5.3 you must enable the epel-testing for centos

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

This is done by editing the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo file (installed by the previous rpm command) and changing the first “enabled=0” to “enabled=1”.

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