DBD::mysql - A Perl5 Database Interface to the MySQL database
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The driver installation is described in

 INSTALL.html

In short: If you are using

 ActivePerl/Windows:

   ppm install DBI
   ppm install DBD::mysql

 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:

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