pip install mysql-python fails with EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

Question

This is the error I get

(mysite)zjm1126@zjm1126-G41MT-S2:~/zjm_test/mysite$ pip install mysql-python
Downloading/unpacking mysql-python
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Answer 1

sometimes the error depends on the actual cause. we had a case where mysql-python was installed through the python-mysqldb debian package.

a developer who didn't know this, accidentally ran pip uninstall mysql-python and then failed to recover with pip install mysql-python giving the above error.

pip uninstall mysql-python had destroyed the debian package contents, and of course pip install mysql-python failed because the debian package didn't need any dev files.

the correct solution in that case was apt-get install --reinstall python-mysqldb which restored mysql-python to its original state.

Answer 2

on MacOS Mojave, mysql_config is found at /usr/local/bin/ rather than /usr/local/mysql/bin as pointed above, so no need to add anything to path.

Answer 3

apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev python-dev

Seemed to do the trick.

Answer 4

You should install the mysql first:

yum install python-devel mysql-community-devel -y

Then you can install mysqlclient:

pip install  mysqlclient

Answer 5

You can use the MySQL Connector/Python

Installation via PyPip

pip install mysql-connector-python

Further information can be found on the MySQL Connector/Python 1.0.5 beta announcement blog.

On Launchpad there's a good example of how to add-, edit- or remove data with the library.

Answer 6

OSX Mavericks

Due to changes within osx mavericks & xcode development tools you may get the error on installation

clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]

therefore use :

sudo ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future pip install mysql-python