DBD::mysql - A Perl5 Database Interface to the MySQL database ============================================================= The driver installation is described in INSTALL.html In short: If you are using ActivePerl/Windows: 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 Red Hat Linux 7.1 (you may prefer gnorpm) rpm -i mysql mysql-devel mysql-server rpm -i perl-DBI rpm -i DBD-MySQL rpm -i zlib-devel SuSE Linux 7.2 (you may prefer yast) rpm -i mysql mysql-client mysql-devel mysql-shared rpm -i perl-DBI rpm -i perl-Msql-Mysql-modules Mandrake Linux 8.0 (any Mandrake specific installation tool?) rpm -i MySQL MySQL-client MySQL-devel MySQL-shared rpm -i perl-DBI rpm -i perl-Mysql rpm -i zlib-devel Debian Linux 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: msql-mysql-modules@lists.mysql.com