“OSError: mysql_config not found” when trying to “pip install mysqlclient” - Django

Question

I\'m relatively new to Django, and Web Development in general.

I am trying to

pip install mysqlclient

in my

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Answer 1

You should start with cloning the mysqlclient repo:

git clone https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python

Then you will have to get mysql-connector-c. You can get it by doing:

brew install mysql-connector-c

Then open /usr/local/bin/mysql_config in a text editor.

From the Github issue:

There are lines in mysql_config like following:

# Create options 
libs="-L$pkglibdir"
libs="$libs -l "

It should be:

#Create options 
libs="-L$pkglibdir"
libs="$libs -lmysqlclient -lssl -lcrypto"

Save that file and change back to the directory where you downloaded the repo. Now open site.cfg file. uncomment the line (remove the #)

#mysql_config = /usr/local/bin/mysql_config

Save that and run:

python3 setup.py install

Answer 2

the python package "mysqlclient" is depended on C system library to drive mysql connect，if you on ubuntu 16.4， just do as below：

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
sudo pip install mysqlclient