How to install MySQLdb package? (ImportError: No module named setuptools)

Question

I am trying to install MySQLdb package. I found the source code here.

I did the following:

gunzip MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz
tar xvf MySQL-python-1.         


        

Answer 1

When you need to install modules in Linux/Unix and you lack sudo / admin rights, one simple way around it is to use the user scheme installation, basically run

"python setup.py install --user" from the command line in the folder of the module / library to be installed

(see http://docs.python.org/install/index.html for further details)