aptitude install mysql-server mysql-client
aptitude install pdns-server pdns-backend-mysql

powerdns.sql

CREATE DATABASE powerdns;
 
GRANT ALL ON powerdns.* TO 'power_admin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'power_admin_password';
GRANT ALL ON powerdns.* TO 'power_admin'@'localhost.localdomain' IDENTIFIED BY 'power_admin_password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
 
USE powerdns;
 
CREATE TABLE domains (
id INT auto_increment,
name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
master VARCHAR(128) DEFAULT NULL,
last_check INT DEFAULT NULL,
type VARCHAR(6) NOT NULL,
notified_serial INT DEFAULT NULL,
account VARCHAR(40) DEFAULT NULL,
primary key (id)
);
 
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX name_index ON domains(name);
 
CREATE TABLE records (
id INT auto_increment,
domain_id INT DEFAULT NULL,
name VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT NULL,
type VARCHAR(6) DEFAULT NULL,
content VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT NULL,
ttl INT DEFAULT NULL,
prio INT DEFAULT NULL,
change_date INT DEFAULT NULL,
primary key(id)
);
 
CREATE INDEX rec_name_index ON records(name);
CREATE INDEX nametype_index ON records(name,type);
CREATE INDEX domain_id ON records(domain_id);
 
CREATE TABLE supermasters (
ip VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL,
nameserver VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
account VARCHAR(40) DEFAULT NULL
);

pdns.conf

[...]
#################################
# launch        Which backends to launch and order to query them in
#
# launch=
launch=gmysql
[...]

pdns.local

# Here comes the local changes the user made, like configuration of
# the several backends that exists.
 
gmysql-host=127.0.0.1
gmysql-user=power_admin
gmysql-password=power_admin_password
gmysql-dbname=powerdns

aptitude install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php-pear php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-mhash php5-ming php5-mysql php5-xmlrpc gettext

cd /tmp
wget https://www.poweradmin.org/download/poweradmin-2.1.4.tgz
tar xvfz poweradmin-2.1.4.tgz
mv poweradmin-2.1.4 /var/www/poweradmin
touch /var/www/poweradmin/inc/config.inc.php
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/poweradmin/

With a web browser navigate to: http://localhost/poweradmin/install/index.php