Ubuntu 8.10 Install Error

[luxsphinx]

Hello all, I am hoping that someone here will be able to help me in getting things up and running smoothly.

Here's the situation: I have set up my own web server, and it is working. My site comes up perfectly, however, I do not know how to get my forum up and running on it. This led me to wanting a control panel of some kind because I knew how to do all these things in cPanel. In the process of looking for a cPanel alternative, I came across this.

My problem came when I attempted to install. I originally had an error with the user & password for the database, but I fixed that. Now I am getting this error:

ERROR: External command '/usr/bin/mysql --host="localhost" --user="motu" --pass="" < /tmp/db.sql 1>/tmp/db.sql.stdout 2>/tmp/db.sql.stderr' returned '1' status !

I've run "ls -lah /var/lib/mysql" and all permissions are set to MySQL if that is off any help. That bit was the only help I could find searching the forum here in relation to my specific issue.

So, can anyone tell me how to fix this? Just ask for any information you may need and I will try to find out. I am new to Linux, so please bear with me and try to be detailed if you can.

Thank you for any help you may have to offer!