Error installing mysqlclient for python on Ubuntu 18.04

Question

I installed Python 2.7.15rci and Python 3.6.7 on Ubuntu. When i did \'pip list\' on virtualenv it returns me:

Django (2.1.5)
pip (9.0.1)
pkg-resources (0.0.0         


        

Answer 1

I turned out, that the solution is slightly different for almost every Python version. For those using different versions, such as Python 2.x, 3.5 or 3.7 I found this:

Part I

For Python 2.x use:

  $ sudo apt-get install python-dev

For Python 2.7 use:

  $ sudo apt-get install libffi-dev

For Python 3.x use:

  $ sudo apt-get install python3-dev

For Python 3.4 use:

  $ sudo apt-get install python3.4-dev

For Python 3.7 use:

  $ sudo apt-get install python3.7-dev

Part II

If this still doesn't help, others have pointed out to install

  $ sudo apt-get install build-essential

and finally

  $ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

But the last two didn't help myself - but hoping this might help you!