If you are on windows, and are using ActiveState perl, and have ppm, then this is much easier. you simply use the command :

C:\WINDOWS>ppm install DBD::MySql
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Now, DBD::MySql does require DBI, so you may also have to do ppm install DBI first. I did this on my pc, with no prior mysql installs, and it looked like this :

C:\WINDOWS>ppm install DBD::MySql
Installing package 'DBD-MySql'...
Bytes transferred: 126147
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\mysql\mysql.bs
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\mysql\mysql.dll
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\mysql\mysql.exp
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\mysql\mysql.lib
Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\Mysql.html
Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\Bundle\DBD\mysql.html
Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\mysql.html
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Mysql.pm
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Mysql\Statement.pm
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\DBD\mysql.pm
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Bundle\DBD\mysql.pm
Installing C:\Perl\bin\dbimon
Installing C:\Perl\bin\dbimon.bat
Writing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\Mysql\.packlist
C:\WINDOWS>
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And, Ta-Da, from the next snippet you can see the library loads fine :

C:\WINDOWS>perl -MDBD::MySql -e 1

C:\WINDOWS>
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