Comment: problem with install

Maybe you could patch the function in shared/sql.php as follows:

/**
 * escape a string
 *
 * @param string to be escaped
 * @return string safe version
 */
function &escape($text) {
    if(is_callable('mysql_real_escape_string'))
        $output = mysql_real_escape_string($text);
    else
        $output = mysql_escape_string($text);
    return $output;
}