Install mysql-python return error in CentOs

Question

I want to run a django project on CentOs. I tried to install mysql-python by easy_install and pip but I got error with both of them. I Googled the problem and found some suggest

Answer 1

I had the same error, but for different reasons (pypy + virtualenv).

Here is the error I got:

Installing collected packages: mysql-python
  Found existing installation: MySQL-python 1.2.4
    Uninstalling MySQL-python:
      Successfully uninstalled MySQL-python
  Running setup.py install for mysql-python
    building '_mysql' extension
    cc -O2 -fPIC -Wimplicit -Dversion_info=(1,2,4,'final',1) -D__version__=1.2.4 -I/usr/include/mysql -I/mnt/hgfs/Work/devel-centos/include -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_mysql.o -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -fPIC -DUNIV_LINUX -DUNIV_LINUX

_mysql.c:29:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory

Please note that the include_dir is -I/mnt/hgfs/Work/devel-centos/include (that's $VIRTUAL_ENV/include), and there is nothing at that location.

My setup:

• CentOS 6.4
• pypy 2.0.2 installed (that's python 2.7.3)

• virtualenv 1.10.1 installed and created my environment with

  virtualenv -p /usr/bin/pypy devel-centos

• python 2.6 is installed

  yum install python-devel did not solve the problem for me; it created /usr/lib64/python2.6/ which isn't used during the pip install mysql-python step.

2 ways to solve the problem:

1. symlink the correct python header files to your virtualenv:

   yum install pypy-devel  # which creates /usr/lib64/pypy-2.0.2/
   ln -s /usr/lib64/pypy-2.0.2/include $VIRTUAL_ENV/include
   

2. or change the setup.cfg file for mysql-python

   pip install --no-install mysql-python
   

   then edit $VIRTUAL_ENV/build/mysql-python/setup.cfg

   [build_ext]
   include_dirs = /usr/lib64/pypy-2.0.2/include
   

   and proceed with the installation.

   pip install --no-download mysql-python