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

For Linux

this works for me

yum install python-devel mysql-devel

Answer 2

Sequence to be followed.

pip install mysqlclient
sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev
pip install configparser 
sudo cp /usr/lib/python3.6/configparser.py /usr/lib/python3.6/ConfigParser.py 

Then try to install the MYSQL-python again. That Worked for me

Answer 3

For anyone that is using MariaDB instead of MySQL, the solution is to install the libmariadbclient-dev package and create a symbolic link to the config file with the correct name.

For example this worked for me:

ln -s /usr/bin/mariadb_config /usr/bin/mysql_config