Error loading MySQLdb module: libmysqlclient.so.20: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Question

I had a running django project and for some reasons I had to remove the current mysql version and install a different MySQL version in my machine.

But now when I am try

Answer 1

My issue with the same error message was mysql environment not all the way set up. I needed to uninstall MySQL-python; install libmysqlclient-dev; reinstall MySQL-python to rectify the issue.

So the fix was too:

• sudo pip uninstall MySQL-python (uninstall from your package manager of choice)

• sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

• sudo pip install MySQL-python

**I should also mention that I used the --no-cache-dir option with pip install to hit PYPI directly which helped discover the following:

sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
  File "/tmp/pip-build-Y7RFpJ/mysql-python/setup.py", line 17, in 
    metadata, options = get_config()
  File "/tmp/pip-build-Y7RFpJ/mysql-python/setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
    libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
  File "/tmp/pip-build-Y7RFpJ/mysql-python/setup_posix.py", line 25, in mysql_config
    raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

and lead me to here

Using: mysql 5.7, mysql-python 1.2.5, django 1.8.9, ubuntu 16.04