MySQL 4.0 on Suse 8.1?

I did an "rpm -Uvh MySQL-server-4.0.20.rpm" using the RPM from the MySQL site. I have tried various things to get MySQL up and running after googling around, but to no avail. I am not sure if the MySQL server is running and I don't know it or what to do. Totally confused here, so if you could ask me some questions I could post the answers. Among other things, I did actually change the users and groups for /var/lib/mysql and /usr/share/mysql recursively to the mysql user and group. -- Cheers, wmeler