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

In python3 with virtualenv on a Ubuntu Bionic machine the following commands worked for me:

sudo apt install build-essential python-dev libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
pip install mysqlclient