Sometimes things outside of ubuntu's control go down, and the entire smoke
will crash and burn for reasons completely unrelated to what we are doing
sudo bash -c 'echo -e "firebird2.5-super\tshared/firebird/enabled\tboolean\ttrue" | debconf-set-selections'
sudo bash -c 'echo -e "firebird2.5-super\tshared/firebird/sysdba_password/new_password\tpassword\t123" | debconf-set-selections'
+ # these APT sources do not mean anything to us anyway
+ sudo rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
+
run_or_err "Updating APT sources" "sudo apt-get update"
apt_install $common_packages libmysqlclient-dev memcached firebird2.5-super firebird2.5-dev unixodbc-dev expect