Unable to install MySQL-python

Question

Okay I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04

Only to be faced by a lot of problems. I am a newbie at this so you might have to tell me in a little more detail or

Answer 1

In some Ubuntu installations, you'll also want to consider libmysqlclient-dev:

sudo apt-get install python-dev libmysqlclient-dev

It also held me back. The other responders probably already had it installed and didn't realize it was required.