ok i am useing suse 9.0 and i downloaded the latest version of phpBB2 from http://phpBB.com

i start to install enter all that i know and get

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

what am i doing wrong ??

****Basic Configuration ****

Default board language: English
Database Type: ?????
Choose your installation method: Install

****Database Configuration ****

Database Server Hostname / DSN: LocalHost
Your Database Name: ???
Database Username: ????
Database Password: ????
Prefix for tables in database: phpbb_

****Admin Configuration ****


Admin Email Address: me@me.com
Domain Name: linux.local ???
Server Port: 80
Script path: /phpBB2/
Administrator Username: for my computer or am i creating one for phpBB2 ???
Administrator Password: ??????????????
Administrator Password [ Confirm ]:

PLEASE HELP ME !!!!

Do you have mysql running? PhpBB needs a database to connect to and my guess is that you don't have mysql running. If you do have it running then you need to create the database for phpbb to use and create a user with the necessary permissions on the database.

No i dont think mysql is running everytime i try to type mysql start it says can't connect to local mysql server through socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock any idea what this means ?

and where is my data base and what files do i edit to give permissions ?