Installing MySQL-python
mysql, python
Solution
On Ubuntu it is advised to use the distributions repository. So installing python-mysqldb should be straight forward:
sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb
If you actually want to use pip to install, which is as mentioned before not the suggested path but possible, please have a look at this previously asked question and answer: pip install mysql-python fails with EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
Here is a very comprehensive guide by the developer: http://mysql-python.blogspot.no/2012/11/is-mysqldb-hard-to-install.html
To get all the prerequisites for python-mysqld to install it using pip (which you will want to do if you are using virtualenv), run this:
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev libmysqlclient-dev
Problem
I got the below failure while trying to get MySQL-python installed on my Ubuntu/Linux Box.From the below it seem like the issue is `sh: mysql_config: not found` Could someone advice me on what to do? ``` rmicro@ubuntu:~$ pip install MySQL-python Downloading/unpacking MySQL-python Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz (70Kb): 70Kb downloaded Running setup.py egg_info for package MySQL-python sh: mysql_config: not found Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 14, in <module> File "/home/rmicro/build/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 15, in <module> metadata, options = get_config() File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config libs = mysql_config("libs_r") File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,)) EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: sh: mysql_config: not found Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 14, in <module> File "/home/rmicro/build/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 15, in <module> metadata, options = get_config() File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config libs = mysql_config("libs_r") File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,)) EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found ---------------------------------------- Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 ```