mysql_config not found when installing mysqldb python interface

Question

I am trying to get a Python script to run on the linux server I\'m connected to via ssh. The script uses mysqldb. I have all the other components I need, but when I try to i

Answer 1

You need to install the python-dev package:

sudo apt-get install python-dev

Answer 2

Step1:-Install Python3 & Python3-dev Both

sudo apt-get install python3 python3-dev

Step2:- Install Python & Mysql Connector

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

step3:- Install python mysql client

sudo apt-get install mysqlclient

This will Solve your Problem

Answer 3

The MySQL-python package is using the mysql_config command to learn about the mysql configuration on your host. Your host does not have the mysql_config command.

The MySQL development libraries package (MySQL-devel-xxx) from dev.mysql.com provides this command and the libraries needed by the MySQL-python package. The MySQL-devel packages are found in the download - community server area. The MySQL development library package names start with MySQL-devel and vary based MySQL version and linux platform (e.g. MySQL-devel-5.5.24-1.linux2.6.x86_64.rpm.)

Note that you do not need to install mysql server.

Answer 4

On my Fedora 23 machine I had to run the following:

sudo dnf install mysql-devel

Answer 5

For Alpine Linux:

$ apk add mariadb-dev mariadb-client mariadb-libs

MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL and became the new standard as of Alpine 3.2. See https://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/4264

Answer 6

I had the same problem. I solved it by following this tutorial to install Python with python3-dev on Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev

And now you can set up your virtual environment:

sudo apt-get install -y python3-venv
pyvenv my_env
source my_env/bin/activate