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

If you are using "yum" the command is sudo yum install python-devel (where 'sudo' may be optional depending on your user account)