How to start mysql service

["raamcm" <raamcm@gmail.com>]

Hi Guy's
I am newbie in debian linux. how to start the mysql database.

ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

my package installation.
dpkg -l | grep mysql
ii  cvm-mysql      0.32-1         Credential Validation Modules (mysql)
ii  libdbd-mysql-p 2.9006-1       A Perl5 database interface to the
MySQL data
ii  libmysqlclient 4.0.24-10      mysql database client library
ii  libmysqlclient 4.1.11a-4      mysql database client library
ii  mysql-client   4.0.24-10      mysql database client binaries
ii  mysql-common   4.0.24-10      mysql database common files (e.g.
/etc/mysql


Thanks for advance,