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

Adam is right but before you run easy_install MySQL-python you need to make sure python-dev is installed as it is not installed by default.

Install is with apt-get install python-dev.