Installing MySQL-python

Question

I got the below failure while trying to get MySQL-python installed on my Ubuntu/Linux Box.From the below it seem like the issue is sh: mysql_config: not found C

Answer 1

You have 2 options, as described bellow:

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Distribution package like Glaslos suggested:

# sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb

In this case you can't use virtualenv no-site-packages (default option) but must use:

# virtualenv --system-site-packages myenv

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Use clean virtualenv and build your own python-mysql package.

First create virtualenv:

# virtualenv myvirtualenv
# source myvirtualenv/bin/activate

Then install build dependencies:

# sudo apt-get build-dep python-mysqldb

Now you can install python-mysql

# pip install mysql-python

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NOTE Ubuntu package is python-mysql*db* , python pypi package is python-mysql (without db)