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Are you familiar with PERL and MySQL? Do you understand the principle of URL's and Paths? Do you know much about HTML tags? Do you know the location of your mail-prog? ... things like that
Things like that ... yes. I have installed dozens of scripts, open source and commercial, including some that use MySQL.
No problems, except when the Perl code is faulty (happens sometimes). I have found I get a better idea of how a script works through the installation process.
The web host people will set up the MySQL server for me.
All I need, usually, is a sensible
readme.txt -- did you get one of those?
Installing Links 2.0 is very simple -- is Links SQL much more complicated than that?