How to install MySQLdb package? (ImportError: No module named setuptools)

Question

I am trying to install MySQLdb package. I found the source code here.

I did the following:

gunzip MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz
tar xvf MySQL-python-1.         


        

Answer 1

@main:

$ su
$ yum install MySQL-python

and it will be installed (MySQLdb).

Answer 2

For Python 2.7, one can easily install using this

apt-get install python2.7-mysqldb

Answer 3

This was sort of tricky for me too, I did the following which worked pretty well.

• Download the appropriate Python .egg for setuptools (ie, for Python 2.6, you can get it here. Grab the correct one from the PyPI site here.)
• chmod the egg to be executable: chmod a+x [egg] (ie, for Python 2.6, chmod a+x setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg)
• Run ./[egg] (ie, for Python 2.6, ./setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg)

Not sure if you'll need to use sudo if you're just installing it for you current user. You'd definitely need it to install it for all users.

Answer 4

well installing C compiler or GCC didn't work but I found a way to successfully install mysqldb package

kindly follow Mike schrieb's (Thanks to him) instructions here . In my case, I used setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg and setuptools-0.6c11 . Then download the executable file here then install that file. hope it helps :)

Answer 5

After trying many suggestions, simply using sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb worked for me.

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