On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, i-cable wrote: > dear sir > i am a new user in debian, i was install mysql in ".deb" > and, .../safe_mysqld & -- .../mysql -u root > > " ERROR 2002: Can't connet to local Mysql server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'(111)" Hi, what packages did you install? I think you missed to install mysql-server. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit