If you installing MySQL-python from pip in Ubuntu and see this error :
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 | Downloading/unpacking MySQL-python==1.2.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 3)) 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/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/trip/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/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/trip/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 in /home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/trip/build/MySQL-python Storing complete log in /home/ubuntu/.pip/pip.log (trip) ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Tripvillas/tripvillas[yodi]$ pip install -r requirements.txt Downloading/unpacking git+https://github.com/yuchant/django-mailer.git (from -r requirements.txt (line 11)) Cloning https://github.com/yuchant/django-mailer.git to /tmp/pip-PUZNs4-build Running setup.py egg_info for package from git+https://github.com/yuchant/django-mailer.git Downloading/unpacking http://labix.org/download/python-dateutil/python-dateutil-1.5.tar.gz (from -r requirements.txt (line 26)) Downloading python-dateutil-1.5.tar.gz (232Kb): 232Kb downloaded Running setup.py egg_info for package from http://labix.org/download/python-dateutil/python-dateutil-1.5.tar.gz Downloading/unpacking Django==1.3.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 2)) Running setup.py egg_info for package Django Downloading/unpacking MySQL-python==1.2.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 3)) 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> 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> 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 —————————————- |
This mean you should install libmysqlclient-dev. On Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric :
1 | sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev libmysqlclient-dev libmysqlclient16 |