feed-on-feeds (LAMP stuff)

[Thufir]

I'm trying to install either
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/pears/>, or
preferably, <http://code.google.com/p/feed-on-feeds/>.

pears gave:

[root at localhost Desktop]#
[root at localhost Desktop]# rpmbuild -ta pears-1.7.tgz
error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
error: line 18: Unknown tag: Copyright:    GPL
[root at localhost Desktop]#
[root at localhost Desktop]# date
Thu Apr 19 06:47:32 BST 2007
[root at localhost Desktop]#

so, I figure better to go with feeds-on-feeds, which seems to be sorta 
maintained:

"How do I install and use FEED ON FEEDS?
Installing it.

    1. Download this tarball.
    2. Explode it.
    3. Edit the file config.php to contain the correct DB connection 
information.
           * If needed, create a MySQL DB for FEED ON FEEDS.  Or, you can
use an existing DB.
    4. Upload the entire tree to wherever on your server you want FEED ON 
FEEDS to live.
    5. Load the page http://{your server}/{wherever you put FEED ON
FEEDS}/install.php.  The installer will first check that it can connect
  to your DB, and then attempt to create the necessary two tables.  Then, 
it will  attempt to create a subdirectory called cache where it will store 
cached copies  of RSS feeds.  This part of the installation may fail, as 
your PHP process may  not have permission to create a directory.  You may 
need to create the directory {wherever you uploaded FEED ON FEEDS 
to}/cache/ yourself, and make sure  it is writable by the PHP process.  If 
you needed to do that, reload install.php.
    6. You should now see a message that says you're ready to go!" 
<http://feedonfeeds.com/>

I have apache up and running to the point where I get the "default" page, 
or I can browse to <http://localhost/helloworld.html> for my own html, or 
<http://localhost/mysql_up.php> shows that MySQL is up and running.  I can 
poke around in MySQL, read a PHP script, start some services, and so on, 
but all this is new to me.

/var/www/html/helloworld.html is the full path for the hello world test.

According to step 4, could I upload the tree to /var/www/html/ ?
According to step 3, how would I determine the "correct" DB connection 
info?

I also looked at <http://www.oshineye.com/software/aggrevator.html> 
because: "Aggrevator's chief distinguishing factor is it's use of a MySql 
database to permanently store every entry fetched from every blog you 
subscribe to," which is what I'm after.

Any suggestions?  I'm partial to feed-on-feeds, but can go in other 
directions.   I'm just getting started with apache, PHP and MySQL.


thanks,

Thufir