pip install mysqlclient on amazon linux

Question

sudo pip install mysqlclient is failing with the famous mysql_config path error The database is a remote mysql RDS. I tried to install a local mysql using yum (not that i ne

Answer 1

First you have to do some initial setup for the compiler of mysql on the os, at least from what I understand.

Make sure you have compiler collection

sudo yum install gcc

Make sure mysql is configured for development purposes

sudo yum install -y mysql-devel

Try to reinstall

pip install mysqlclient==1.3.12

Hope this helps since it seemed to do the trick for me. I came across this here where I found for the equivalent to ubuntu's sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev