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

Had a similar issue trying to install on OS X Server 10.6.8. Here's what I had to do. Using:

MySQL-python 1.2.4b4 (source) MySQL-5.6.19 (binary installer) Python 2.7 (binary installer) NOTE: Installing in virtualenv...

Unzip source, open 'distribute_setup.py' and edit DEFAULT_VERSION to use the latest version of distribute tools, like so:

DEFAULT_VERSION = "0.6.49"

Save. Open 'site.cfg' file and uncomment the path to mysql_config so it looks something like (reference your own path to mysql_config):

# The path to mysql_config.
# Only use this if mysql_config is not on your PATH, or you have some weird
# setup that requires it.
mysql_config = /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

Now clean, build and make will not fail with the 'mysql_config' not found error. Hope this helps someone else trying to make use of their old xserves :-)

Answer 2

I had the same problem in the Terraform:light container. It is based on Alpine.

There you have to install mariadb-dev with:

apk add mariadb-dev

But that one is not enough because also all the other dependencies are missed:

apk add python2 py2-pip gcc python2-dev musl-dev

Answer 3

Try sudo apt-get build-dep python-mysqldb

Answer 4

There maybe various answers for the above issue, below is a aggregated solution.

For Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install python-dev
$ sudo apt install python-MySQLdb

For CentOS:

$ yum install python-devel mysql-devel

Answer 5

In Mac OS, I simply ran this in terminal to fix:

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

This is the quickest fix I found - it adds it to the path, but I think you're better off adding it permanently (ie add it to /etc/paths) if you plan to install MySQL-python in another environment.

(tested in OSX Mountain Lion)

Answer 6

if you install MySQL-python in your virtual env, you should check the pip version, if the version is older than 9.0.1, please update it

pip install --upgrade pip