Installing DBD::mysql from source

To install DBI and DBD:mysql from source, run the following:

wget http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/DBI-1.48.tar.gz
tar xvzf DBI-1.48.tar.gz
cd DBI-1.48
unset LANG;
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

cd ..
wget http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/DBD-mysql-3.0002.tar.gz
tar xvzf DBD-mysql-3.0002.tar.gz
cd DBD-mysql-3.0002
unset LANG;
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

to install it from cpan, use this:

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::DBD::mysql'