How to install MySQLdb in Python 2.6 CentOS

Question

I am getting this message when I use yum install mysql-python to install MySQLdb.

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Answer 1

You might want to add the EPEL Repo:

/bin/rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm creates=/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

then enable it in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo: set enabled=1

try yum install gcc-c++ MySQL-python afterwards.