Python install mysql-python simple notes (ubuntu environment)

This article mainly introduces how to install mysql-python in python, and the testing environment is ubuntu. it details the problems and solutions encountered during mysql-python installation, this document describes how to install mysql-python in python. We will share this with you for your reference. The details are as follows:

Operations in ubuntu

The pip tool is installed first.

sudo apt-get install python-pip

Then use

sudo pip install mysql-python

Install a third-party library. However, an error is reported.

sh: mysql_config: not foundTraceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 15, in 
 
    metadata, options = get_config() File "/home/zhxia/apps/source/MySQL-python-1.2.3/setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config  libs = mysql_config("libs_r") File "/home/zhxia/apps/source/MySQL-python-1.2.3/setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config  raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
 

The reason is that libmysqlclient-dev is not installed.

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

Continue to install and find or report an error

Mysql. c: 29: 20: fatal error: Python. h: the file or directory does not exist. The Python header file cannot be found. isn't the python development kit installed in wheezy by default?

sudo dpkg -l | grep python-dev

No, but you still need to install it:

sudo apt-get install python-dev

MySQL-python can be compiled.