virtualenv(python3.4), pip install mysqlclient error

Question

I created virtualenv for django 1.9 project. I am trying to pip install mysqlclient or mysql-python but both of them gives me errors.

pip install mysqlclient

pip install mysql-python

both give me the same error message:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/r4/bkv_4t9s4r140pjkgv6lsq8w0000gn/T/pip-build-cdxcssp9/mysqlclient

any suggestions!?

Solution 1

Try to run this before:

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python-dev python3-dev
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
pip install pymysql
pip install mysqlclient

In OSX:

sudo xcodebuild -license accept
brew install mysql-connector-c

Solution 2

This is probably due to your mysql_config being broken.

As of 2019, here is how to run smoothly pip install mysqlclient on MacOS:

brew info openssl and follow the commands at the bottom

  echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
  export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"
  export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"

Other approaches:

• brew install/upgrade/reinstall mysql : did not fix the issue for me, but has the nice side effect to make sure your installation is clean.
• brew install mysql-connector-c : to make that work you have to unlink mysql, which ruins your setup and it did not fix the issue for me.

Solution 3

If you're using Anaconda (which I highly suggest you) then run these two commands

conda install -c anaconda mysql-connector-python

and

conda install -c bioconda mysqlclient

Solution 4

1. Download the MySQL APT repository config tool (you can see more details here: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/apt/)

   wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.7.3-1_all.deb
   

2. Install the MySQL APT repository config tool

   dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.7.3-1_all.deb
   

You will be asked to select product and version that you want to install. In the first step, select Server and next select either mysql-5.6 or mysql-5.7. Then click Apply.

3. Update APT

   apt-get update
   

4. Install the server

   sudo apt-get install mysql-community-server
   
   sudo apt-get install python-dev python3-dev
   sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
   pip install pymysql
   pip install mysqlclient
   

Solution 5

If you are using Python 2.x, and already have installed:

• MySQL Server
• Python Connector
  

Then the problem is when you run:

Windows:

(your environment) SomePath> pip install mysqlclient 

Mac OS:

$ pip install mysqlclient

Actually it is asking to install package for Python 3.x not 2.x. So it is throwing an error.

Solution is to run:

Windows:

(your environment) SomePath> pip install mysqlclient==1.3.9

Mac OS:

$ pip install mysqlclient==1.3.9

P.S The mysqlclient==1.3.9 version is the latest version for Python 2.x

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