DBD::mysql - A Perl5 Database Interface to the MySQL database ============================================================= The driver installation is described in INSTALL.html In short: If you are using Windows/ActivePerl 1.) If you need to use an HTTP Proxy, set the environment variable http_proxy, for example like this: set http_proxy=http://myproxy.com:8080/ 2.) The actual installation is as simple as ppm install DBI ppm install DBD::mysql As of this writing, the above procedure won't work with ActivePerl 5.8.0, because so far a PPM for DBD::mysql is not available from the ActiveState server. I don't know why. However, Randy Kobes has kindly donated a PPM package to his own repository. You can use this as follows: ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/DBD-mysql.ppd Windows/CygWin Unfortunately it seems that the usual MySQL windows binaries cannot be combined with the CygWin libraries. At least I don't know how. In other words: You need to compile your own MySQL client binaries. In what follows I assume that you have downloaded and extracted the MySQL sources and the DBD::mysq sources to /usr/local/src. The following steps should do: cd /usr/local/src/mysql-4.0.9 ./configure --without-server --prefix=/usr/local/mysql-4.0.9 make make install cd /usr/local/src/DBD-mysql-2.1023 perl Makefile.PL \ --libs="-L/usr/local/mysql-4.0.9/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz" \ --cflags=-I/usr/local/mysql-4.0.9/include/mysql \ --testhost=127.0.0.1 make make test # Some minor error messages can be ignored here make install Linux/Red Hat (you may prefer gnorpm to use) rpm -i mysql mysql-devel mysql-server rpm -i perl-DBI rpm -i DBD-MySQL rpm -i zlib-devel Linux/SuSEs(you may prefer to use yast) rpm -i mysql mysql-client mysql-devel mysql-shared rpm -i perl-DBI rpm -i perl-Msql-Mysql-modules Linux/Mandrake (you may prefer to use any Mandrake specific tool?) rpm -i MySQL MySQL-client MySQL-devel MySQL-shared rpm -i perl-DBI rpm -i perl-Mysql rpm -i zlib-devel Linux/Debian Install the packages mysql-client mysql-server mysql-doc mysql-common libdbi-perl lidbd-mysql-perl No idea how one does install these under Debian, but I am sure you know. :-) For others, or in case of problems see INSTALL.html. The drivers documentation can be obtained with perldoc lib/DBD/mysql.pod or pod2html lib/DBD/mysql.pod >mysql.html The driver is maintained by a mailing list: perl@lists.mysql.com You can also get help from MySQL, Patrick Galbraith patg@mysql.com