Upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 now MySQL-python dependencies are broken

Question

I just upgraded my Ubuntu install to 16.04 and this seems to have broken my mysql dependencies in the MySQL-python package.

Here is my error message:

Answer 1

I ended up finding the solution to my problems with pip install --no-binary MySQL-python MySQL-python as stated in this thread : Python's MySQLdb can’t find libmysqlclient.dylib with Homebrewed MySQL

Answer 2

Thank for Largaroth. If you use mysqlclient on Ubuntu 16.04 and have error: ImportError: libmysqlclient.so.18: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You can fix:

sudo -H pip uninstall mysqlclient

sudo -H pip install --no-binary mysqlclient mysqlclient

Answer 3

I had the same issue. I uninstalled and reinstalled MySQL-python:

pip uninstall MySQL-python
pip install MySQL-python

Answer 4

I had this issue with python 3.6... when I used an environment with Python 3.5 it worked just fine.

Answer 5

I solved this on my virtual environment using django 2.2.7 and Ubuntu 19.10 by doing:

pip3 uninstall mysqlclient

pip3 install mysqlclient

Answer 6

I had this issue on updating to stretch. To fix it I updated my requirements.txt:

mysqlclient==1.4.2.post1

So either update that manually or pip install --upgrade mysqlclient