Please put <code>...</code> tags around your post so we can read it. Do you have the mysql server installed? You need to install it before installing the client (DBD::mysql). Did you read the readme for DBD::mysql? You may need to set some environment vars so it knows where to find the server in order to run the tests.

update ah, ok, now that Corion put code tags I can see that not having the mysql server is definitely your problem. If it's not installed (try "which mysql" to see if it's installed) then you can probably use yum to install it.

In reply to Re: DBD::mysql 4.003 installation failed by jZed
in thread DBD::mysql 4.003 installation failed by vicky

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