pip install mysql-python fails with EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

Question

This is the error I get

(mysite)zjm1126@zjm1126-G41MT-S2:~/zjm_test/mysite$ 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/zjm1126/zjm_test/mysite/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/zjm1126/zjm_test/mysite/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
Storing complete log in /home/zjm1126/.pip/pip.log
(mysite)zjm1126@zjm1126-G41MT-S2:~/zjm_test/mysite$ pip install mysql-python
Downloading/unpacking mysql-python
  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/zjm1126/zjm_test/mysite/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/zjm1126/zjm_test/mysite/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
Storing complete log in /home/zjm1126/.pip/pip.log

What can I do to resolve this?

Answer 1

It seems mysql_config is missing on your system or the installer could not find it. Be sure mysql_config is really installed.

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

Answer 2

In Mac OS, I simply ran this in terminal to fix:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin

Answer 3

apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev python-dev

似乎成功了。

Answer 4

There maybe various answers for the above issue, below is a aggregated solution.

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install python-dev
$ sudo apt install python-MySQLdb

Answer 5

If you are on MAC Install this globally

brew install mysql

then export path like this

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin

Than globally or in your venv whatever you like

pip install MySQL-Python

Note: globally for python3 as Mac can have both python2 & 3

pip3 install MySQL-Python

Answer 6

You can use the MySQL Connector\/Python

pip install mysql-connector-python

Answer 7

For centos<\/strong> users:

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_mysql.c:29:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory<\/code>


pip install --global-option=build_ext --global-option="-I\/usr\/include\/python2.6" MySQL-python<\/code>

Answer 8

I was trying to install mysql-python<\/code> on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance and I had to install these :

yum install mysql mysql-devel mysql-common mysql-libs gcc

Answer 9

For anyone that is using MariaDB instead of MySQL, the solution is to install the libmariadbclient-dev<\/code> package and create a symbolic link to the config file with the correct name.

ln -s /usr/bin/mariadb_config /usr/bin/mysql_config

Answer 10

For Linux

this works for me

yum install python-devel mysql-devel

Answer 11

尝试sudo apt-get build-dep python-mysqldb<\/code>

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Answer 12

OSX Mavericks <\/h3>

Due to changes within osx mavericks & xcode development tools you may get the error on installation

Answer 13

对于 mariadb 安装lib mariadb client-dev而不是libmysqlclient-dev

sudo apt-get install libmariadbclient-dev

Answer 14

You should install the mysql<\/code> first:

yum install python-devel mysql-community-devel -y

Answer 15

I had the same problem in the Terraform:light container. It is based on Alpine.

There you have to install mariadb-dev with:

apk add mariadb-dev

But that one is not enough because also all the other dependencies are missed:

apk add python2 py2-pip gcc python2-dev musl-dev

Answer 16

sometimes the error depends on the actual cause. we had a case where mysql-python was installed through the python-mysqldb debian package.

Answer 17

Sequence to be followed.

pip install mysqlclient
sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev
pip install configparser 
sudo cp /usr/lib/python3.6/configparser.py /usr/lib/python3.6/ConfigParser.py 

Answer 18

Had a similar issue trying to install on OS X Server 10.6.8. Here's what I had to do. Using:

DEFAULT_VERSION = "0.6.49"

Answer 19

Your sudo path does not know about your local path... go into superuser mode, add the path, and install it from there.

sudo su
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin/
pip install mysql-python
exit

Answer 20

如果您在虚拟环境中安装 MySQL-python，您应该检查 pip 版本，如果版本低于 9.0.1，请更新它

pip install --upgrade pip

Answer 21

On Mac:

brew install mysql-client

Answer 22

write on 27 Aug, 2021

It seems like in the higher version of mysql, they delete the my_config.h<\/code> files but change to the mysql.h<\/code> .

cd /usr/local/include/mysql
cp mysql.h my_config.h

Answer 23

在 MacOS Mojave 上，mysql_config 位于 \/usr\/local\/bin\/ 而不是 \/usr\/local\/mysql\/bin 如上所述，因此无需向路径添加任何内容。

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Answer 24

In my case my database is running on container and my flask app is running on another container when i tried updating code app got broke with error

   Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
/bin/sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: mariadb_config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/pip-build-bya8e734/mysqlclient/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
    metadata, options = get_config()
  File "/tmp/pip-build-bya8e734/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 65, in get_config
    libs = mysql_config("libs")
  File "/tmp/pip-build-bya8e734/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 31, in mysql_config
    raise OSError("{} not found".format(_mysql_config_path))
OSError: mysql_config not found