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The Firebird 2.1.1 packages are now in ppa for Ubuntu Gutsy , Feisty , Hardy
The guide for installing is located in the ubuntu wiki

In this guide I will try and cover as much as I can regarding the setup and basic use of Grip as a cd-ripper. We will explore various tweaks and settings I have collected over the past couple of years whilst using it, and I will try and simplify the setup process as much as possible.

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Here is the new guide for installing firebird 2.1 and flamerobin on the ubuntu hardy heron and can be used for other releases (gutsy/feisty/dapper/intrepid ibex)

firebird 2.1 is now uploaded to debian , here are the details for this new package (soon will be published to debian unstable) . Package for ubuntu  hardy is uploaded into my ppa
but there are some known issues for the moment (with ubuntu package)
it doesn’t start then you need to manually create  symlinks
ln -s /var/run/firebird/2.1/ [...]

I've got the new Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4 Remix running now on my laptop and it is looking really good. I really like the new visual design and it is great that the Kubuntu project team made a release featuring KDE4 available on top of everything else they have had to do to get the main release of Kubuntu out. Up to now I have been running KDE3 and experimenting a bit with KDE4 on a virtual machine, but now I'm making the move full time. I don't know yet if that will prove a good decision while KDE4 is so young, it was only released in January 2008, but it is easy enough to swap desktop system on an Ubuntu distribution so I thought it was worth gaining that "bit of an edge" and going with the latest desktop experience that is available on Linux. The Ubuntu distributions always show very significant progress on every new release, and 8.04 has followed this trend and I'm finding it very pleasant to use

Congratulations to the Ubuntu community on the release of Ubuntu 8.04! I am currently downloading a copy of Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4 Remix and preparing to make a jump from KDE3 to 4, which should give a modern looking computing experience anyway. I've been playing with the beta version of the Remix CD for a while now, and KDE4 seems to have improved quite a lot since I first blogged about it back in January. I'll about the experience of installing it on my laptop in the next few days, and since seeing this video on YouTube I'm tempted to install it on my Asus EEE PC as well!

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 is released with firebird2.0 and flamerobin included in their repository
Here is an easy guide for installing firebird2.0 and then follow the flamerobin 0.8.6 guide
ps: soon there will be an firebird2.1 package for ubuntu created (it wasn’t possible to include it in this short period of time after release)

you will need an apache+php+php5interbase setup (in ubuntu or any distro,or windows)

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$sudo apt-get install php5-interbase cvs
then checkout the latest version in /var/www directory
$cd /var/www
$cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ibwebadmin.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ibwebadmin logincvs -z3
$sudo cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ibwebadmin.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ibwebadmin co -P ibwebadmin
$sudo [...]

you can install it from my ppa repository
ps: if you get an startup error  on hardy it’s an known bug (soon i will re upload the package)

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modify  /usr/lib/firebird/2.1/bin/fbmgr
to look like this
#!/bin/sh
FIREBIRD=/usr/lib/firebird/2.1
export FIREBIRD
exec $FIREBIRD/bin/fbmgr.bin [...]

Want the current KDE 4 goodness in Ubuntu or Kubuntu 8.04? If so, simply install kubuntu-kde4-desktop and enjoy! Current version is 4.0.2 with 4.0.3 due out towards the beginning of April.