(You haven't included your email address in either of those complaints, nor
have you published your email address at your Launchpad page, which makes it
rather hard to reply directly to you. The bug tracker is not a forum for
people to simply "post instructions" for straightforward [and easily
google-able] instructions. However...)
As @mariuz indicated in #16, there is a patched version of this package
available for the *next* version of Ubuntu ("Maverick", AKA version 10.10 [I
think]).
However, looking at the Launchpad page
(http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firebird2.1) we can see that the patch has
been made available for other versions as well.
In either of the following cases, note that if you've reported this bug,
chances are Firebird is already installed on your system - although
likely not configured correctly. You may first want to *uninstall*
these packages before attempting to reinstall them.
The automatic way:
go to "Software Sources" under the Administration menu in the GUI and enable
the "Universe" repository. It's just a checkbox, you do not need to add any
URLs to anything. (In fact, I recommend you undo whatever changes you were
talking about, above.) If you can't figure this out, try googling "ubuntu how
to enable the universe repository" - the top 10 hits are all reasonably clear;
the instructions for v9.x should also work on v10.x. Then launch Synaptic,
remove the offending firebird package(s) from your system (I would suggest
right-clicking and choosing the "Completely Remove..." option if you're not
sure how.), APPLY those changes, then re-install the firebird package(s).
The manual way:
Start at this page: https://launchpad.net/firebird/2.1, and click on the
version of Ubuntu that corresponds to whatever you're running. (10.04 is
"Lucid Lynx") From the resultant page, under "Builds:" (right-hand column)
click on the architecture you are running (most likely amd64 or i386, depending
on whether you installed a 64-bit or 32-bit OS). Then click on the name of the
package you want to download. From *that* page, under "Downloadable files",
click on the .deb file and download it. You'll probably have to download them
all or you'll run into dependency problems.
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package firebird2.1-classic 2.1.3.18185-0.ds1-6build1 failed to
install/upgrade: on ubuntu 9.10->10.04 B2 upgrade
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/566710
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