pip install mysqlclient fails on Ubuntu with python 2.7 on docker

Question

When I ran the docker file code below

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \\
        ca-certificates \\
        vim \\
              


        

Answer 1

Add build-essential to the apt-get install package list.

It seems that your base image is very basic, and does not have gcc installed, so you cannot compile anything.