Why can't easy_install find MySQLdb?

Question

This is what I tried:

$ easy_install-2.6 -d /home/user/lib/python2.6 MySQLdb  
Searching for MySQLdb  
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/MySQLdb/  
Couldn\'t         


        

Answer 1

You have the wrong package name.

MySQL-python is the right one:

easy_install MySQL-python

or

pip install MySQL-python