How to download and install MySQLdb module for Python on Linux?
Please use md5 checksum to make sure the downloaded files are not corrupt. Also, $ before commands mean you can run the command as ordinary user and # means you have to run the command as root (or use $ sudo <command>).
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mysql-python/mysql-python/1.2.3/MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz $ tar xzf MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz $ cd MySQL-python-1.2.3 # /opt/python/bin/python setup.py install
That should install MySQLdb module, but in case you get an error complaining about missing mysql_config, do the following inside MySQLdb unzipped folder (use your favorite text editor instead of nano, if you will):
$ nano site.cfg
and find the line that starts with something like the following:
# mysql_config = ...
You have to uncomment it and replace the path with path of mysql_config in your local machine. On my computer, I did the following:
mysql_config = /opt/mysql/bin/mysql_config
Ctrl-O to save and Ctrl-X to exit out of nano and run the following on command line:
# /opt/python-2.7/bin/python setup.py install
That should install the MySQLdb module for your python installation. To verify:
$ ls /opt/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ -la | grep MySQL
The output looked like below on my machine:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106932 Nov 4 11:49 MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
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Comments (write a comment):
Thanks for the help. I confirmed this on Fedora 17, though I needed to install python-devel and mysql-devel before it would work. Also, if you have a 64-bit machine, the mysql package might end up in /usr/lib64/... Check the output of setup.py, it will tell you. Posted by: Brian on Sep 20, 2012
Where exactly should I put the unzipped MySQL-python-1.2.3 folder? Right now it's in my downloads but is it okay to leave it there? Posted by: Stephanie on Feb 08, 2015