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@@ -12,8 +12,13 @@ This small project provides a web based viewer for comics in the CBZ and CBR for
 
 * Make sure the web server can read the folder than contains your comic book/novel archives
 * Create a MySQL/MariaDB database for the app with privileges granted to a user
+  * `create database comics`
+  * `create user 'comics'@'localhost' identified by 'password'`
+  * `grant all privileges on comics.* to 'comics'@'localhost'`
 * Import the `install/initial_db_mysql.sql` database structure
+  * `mysql --host=localhost --user=comics -p comics < install/initial_db_mysql.sql`
 * Change the ownership of the `comics/` and `thumbs/` folders to the web server user
+  * `chown www-data:www-data comics thumbs`
 * Copy the `config-dist.php` file to `config.php` and edit that file appropriately
 * Set up the cron job for things in [cron/](cron/). If installing on a systemd OS see services below.