Since I helped Mandriva to do their packages for Firebird, I jumped and with Michal, we made things happen
Users of Opensuse 10.0,10.1,10.3 and future 11.0 but also SLE 10 can now just use the server:database repository  and get Firebird 2.0.4
As soon as the Firebird Project will publish Firebird 2.1.1, packages will be there too.
Tag: opensuse
Orphanage for #OpenSuse Linux packages
If there are any takers for building and maintaining the suse packages please do so , until then Firebird package is orphane
Philippe Makowski wrote:
As you may know, I’m the maintainer of Firebird packages in OpenSuse.
but I’m also doing the same for Fedora (including EPEL), Mandriva and
the future Mageia.OpenSuse is not my preferred distro, for far, and even if they are all
rpm distro, following seriously a distro need some time, and when new
Firebird version is there you need some time to do the job the right
way. And I don’t have enough time for this.
So I will still maintain Mandriva, Mageia, Fedora but no longer OpenSuse
(will it be “open” for a long time I don’t know, and that’s another story)So please OpenSuse and Firebird users, step in, I will help you if need.
Firebird in openSUSE Factory – Mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News
Firebird is mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News
“I want to inform our users that thanks to the efforts of Philippe Makowski, we’ve got Firebird in openSUSE now. He took over the package we had in Build Service, rewrote spec file from scratch, fixed quite some errors and adjusted package in many ways. And as the result Firebird package was finally accepted yesterday (1st of September) into openSUSE Factory.
#Firebird #Database is now officially included in #OpenSuse and the next #Suse
Good news for Firebird and OpenSuse users, Firebird package will be in official repository for new OpenSuse 11.2
For people wanting to test it, it is in the Factory repository
We should send a notice to distrowatch maintainer to add Firebird to the table of included packages for openSuse
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse
Firebird OpenSuse, SLE prerelease repository
Philippe Makowski created a prerelase repositories for OpenSuse and SLE
Choose the repository you need and setup Firebird 2.1.3RC1, Flamerobin and the Python driver
Firebird 2.1.2 included in OpenSUSE 10.3
Here is the link with new packages for firebird 2.1.2
In fact not only in OpenSuse 10.3 but also in 11.1 😉
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database/openSUSE_11.1/repodata/repoview/Databases.group.html
Firebird 2.0.4 packages for OpenSuse – link to repository and one click install
Here are the Firebird 2.0.4 packages for OpenSuse and the link for database repository and one click install
Firebird and Suse
By philippe on Thursday 29 May 2008