OK ... Have development system upgraded and currently running SUSE Leap
15.0 out of the box so ...

Firebird 3.0.2
PHP 7.2.5
Nginx 1.14.0 ( Apache is locked out )

Getting the following randomly ...

Warning: fbird_connect(): Your user name and password are not defined.
Ask your database administrator to set up a Firebird login. Install
incomplete, please read the Compatibility chapter in the release notes
for this version in
/srv/website/externals/adodb/drivers/adodb-firebird.inc.php on line 69

But a reload works fine and navigating around currently is also fine.
The first question is just how should one replace the SUSE style of
package management to just replace a single element such as Firebird ...
and will that help anyway?

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