After reading the installation instructions, and then looking for more information, I found a 'xoops for dummies' that was sort of ok. What really bugs me about the installation instructions is 'create a database' when all there's needed is a handfull of cli commands to get it setup correctly.

mysql -uroot mysql
create..
grant..

It would be fairly easy and would be highly apreciated by people that are setting this up from scratch and NOT using a hosting company.