4 - Install a MySQL server and the DBI Perl modules.
5 - Debian: (apt-get install mysql-server libdbd-mysql-perl)
7 - run 'mysqladmin -u root -p create <DB NAME>'
10 - if connection to localhost is (short) refused, run
11 '/etc/init.d/mysql stop'.
12 '/etc/init.d/mysql start'.
13 - if connection for user is refused, reload grant tables with
14 'mysqladmin -u root -p reload'
16 - run 'scripts/dbm2mysql.pl old-db' to convert dbm database file
21 You can add a new user manually by connecting to MySQL and performing these
26 mysql> CREATE DATABASE blootbot;
27 mysql> GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
28 mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON blootbot.* TO 'user'@'localhost';
30 for the mysql that are on apt the bot (#debian@OPN), they are available
31 at http://emu.res.cmu.edu/~apt/blootbot/apt.sql.bz2