First use of mySql

[John M Phillips]

I am trying to evaluate a koha, a library(books) management software.
Koha uses mysql, which I have not used.  The daemon gets started, but the
koha install script can not get use the mysql login to get access.

I have tried(su to mysql), the command
	mysql mysql
	mysql --user=mysql mysql
	mysql --user=mysql --password=<mysql's linux passwd> mysql

All of these failed with the same error message
ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

Any help in getting started would be appreciated

John M Phillips