Building firebird 2.1.x from source on ubuntu
this guide is for ubuntu and it was tested on an ec2 xen image
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/firebird/firebird/2.1.4-Release/Firebird-2.1.4.18393-0.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf Firebird-2.1.4.18393-0.tar.bz2
cd Firebird-2.1.0.15999-Beta1
apt-get install automake libtool libreadline5-dev make btyacc bison gawk g++
./configure –prefix=/opt/firebird2.1.x –enable-superserver
make
sudo make install
if you want classic you might need to install xinetd and then run configure as bellow
sudo apt-get install xinetd
./configure –prefix=/opt/firebird2.1.x