Unable to install mysqlclient on centos

Question

I am building a django app and for which i need to configure mysql.I am trying to install mysqlclient module for sql connection and this is what i am trying

Answer 1

I found this solution at https://github.com/r-dbi/RMySQL/issues/197:

I think this is a bug in that custom MariaDB repo. Their package MariaDB-devel-10.2.6-1.fc25.x86_64 only contains a library named:

/usr/lib64/libmariadbclient.a

However their pkg-config yields another name:

> pkg-config --libs mariadb
    -lmariadb

You best raise this at the maintainers of that repo. A workaround is to symlink libmariadbclient.a to libmariadb.a:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libmariadbclient.a /usr/lib64/libmariadb.a

That fixes the installation.

So basically to have mysqlclient install in Python 3.6 and CentOS 7 you need to run:

sudo yum install -y python36-devel mysql-devel gcc

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libmariadbclient.a /usr/lib64/libmariadb.a

pip install mysqlclient