Got this as an error message – what am I missing

Thanks for the help in advance — I have my domain already, got my FTP stuff and password all in a row already.
This is the error message that I get when i open
/wp-admin/install.php

It says in firefox —

wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.”, “WordPress ? Error”); } require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions.php’); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?> > text_direction) ) : ?>
WordPress
‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’

‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’).’
‘); switch($step) { case 0: ?>

ReadMe documentation at your leisure.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>

ERROR: please type your e-mail address”)); } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { die(__(“ERROR: the e-mail address isn’t correct”)); } ?>