zabbix-serer-mysql fails to install

[karaluh]

The error message I get when installing:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: zabbix-server-mysql 1:1.8.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 12 15:20:47 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pl_PL:pl:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: zabbix

[karaluh (karaluh)]

On the console I also get:

chown: błędny użytkownik: `zabbix'
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2).
unable to connect to mysql server.
error encountered creating user:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)