I have updated the tutorial for Firebird 2.1 classic and Ubuntu Karmic koala http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=1338 
sudo apt-get install firebird2.1-dev

I have installed latest DBI
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.609.tar.gz
tar -zxvf DBI-1.609.tar.gz
cd DBI-1.609
perl Makefile.PL
sudo make install

Then install the Firebird driver
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/E/ED/EDPRATOMO/DBD-InterBa
+se-0.48.tar.gz
tar -zxvf DBD-InterBase-0.48.tar.gz
cd DBD-InterBase-0.48
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test (optional step)
make install

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In reply to Re: Getting a Perl connection to a Firebird2.1-classic database in Kubuntu 9.10 by Anonymous Monk
in thread Getting a Perl connection to a Firebird2.1-classic database in Kubuntu 9.10 by Steve_BZ

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