The most basic question

[John Oliver]

I am the newbiest-newbie there is. I barely even know what a database is! :)

I have a Fedora Core 2 server, and need to install MySQL for one of the websites on it. I downloaded the MySQL RPMs. Do I just rpm -Uvh them? Or is there anything else that needs to be done? And once I have MySQL installed, what do I need to do to let the user do what they need to do? Remember, I know nothing, so please no "well, we need to know what they're going to do..." I don't know, and don't care. If there's a way to limit it so that their database can't take over my whole machine, great, but this is a long-standing, trusted client, so if I need to give them the keys to the MySQL castle, fine.