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

I encountered the same problem, just added the path where *mysql_config* resided to the environment variable PATH and it worked for me.

Answer 2

(Specific to Mac OS X)

I have tried a lot of things, but these set of commands finally worked for me.

1. Install mysql

   brew install mysql
   

2. brew unlink mysql
3. brew install mysql-connector-c
4. Add the mysql bin folder to PATH

   export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/8.0.11/bin:$PATH
   

5. mkdir /usr/local/Cellar/lib/
6. Create a symlink

   sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/8.0.11/lib/libmysqlclient.21.dylib /usr/local/Cellar/lib/libmysqlclient.21.dylib
   

7. brew reinstall openssl (source)
8. Finally, install mysql-client

   LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/ pip install mysqlclient
   

Update: In case this doesn't work, @vinyll suggests to run brew link mysql before step 8.

Answer 3

I got the same error while trying to install mysql-python.

This is how I fixed it.

sudo PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin/:$PATH pip install mysql-python

The problem was that the installer could not find the mysql_config in the default path. Now it can ..and it worked..

 15 warnings generated.
    clang -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -Wl,-F. build/temp.macosx-10.8-intel-2.7/_mysql.o -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient_r -lz -lm -lmygcc -o build/lib.macosx-10.8-intel-2.7/_mysql.so -arch x86_64

Successfully installed mysql-python
Cleaning up...

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

Answer 4

As actual error is

gcc ... -I/usr/include/python2.7 ...

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

and If you can't install python-dev or python-devel packages, you may download archive with needed version of python sources from http://hg.python.org/ and place headers files in proper folder for include

Answer 5

In centos 7 this works for me :

yum install mariadb-devel
pip install mysqlclient

Answer 6

On Red Hat I had to do

sudo yum install mysql-devel gcc gcc-devel python-devel
sudo easy_install mysql-python

Then it worked.