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Question

I get the following error when I try to install MySQL-python-1.2.3 under Python 2.6 in Fedora 14.

Fedora 14 comes with Python 2.7 by default and I am working in a p

Answer 1

you need to install MySQL Development package

yum install mysql-devel

Answer 2

Solved this issue in the following way

1. Copy MySQLdb folder from site-packages directory of Python2.7 to Python2.6.

2. Also copy the following files from site-packages directory of Python2.7 to Python2.6.

   _mysql.so

   _mysql_exceptions.py

   _mysql_exceptions.pyc

   _mysql_exceptions.pyo

Now try the following

>>> import MySQLdb  
>>> MySQLdb.__version__  
'1.2.3'

Answer 3

Install python-devel. That should help