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Brandon Tupiti
Brandon Tupiti

Reputation: 274

why 'pip install mysqlclient' not working in ubuntu 18.04 LTS

I have just created a virtual environment on my machine (I am running on ubuntu 18.04 LTS). I have the python version of 3.6.7 and now I want to install mysqlclient into my virtual environment.

After I do pip install mysqlclient it didn't work, instead it gave me errors saying;

Command "python.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-zd21vfb3/mysqlclient/', and that the msql_config file is not found.

My setup tools are all up to date.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 21163

Answers (5)

Nishith Baravkar
Nishith Baravkar

Reputation: 31

You need to install certain prerequisite packages to install mysqlclient. As of mysqlclient==2.2.4, you need to install these packages:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev build-essential pkg-config

You can always refer to this mysqlclient GitHub link to keep up with the prerequisites.

Upvotes: 0

abdadeel
abdadeel

Reputation: 666

I was getting the same error when building my docker container. I tried installing the following in sequence but did not work.

sudo apt-get install mysql-client
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Then this 👇 solved the problem.

sudo apt-get install default-libmysqlclient-dev

Upvotes: 4

Steve Mapes
Steve Mapes

Reputation: 921

In order to correctly install MySQLClient on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 LTS you need to install each of the following:

# Replace python3.6 with which ever version of Python3 you are using
sudo apt-get install python3.6-dev 
sudo apt-get install mysql-client
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

The last one is often missed on answers but is required now.

Only then can you install it via pip. Also make sure to update pip so you are not using version 9 if that installs into your vevn.

Upvotes: 14

Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan

Reputation: 1107

Check if you have already installed setuptools. After that in terminal

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

Then(Keeping in mind to activate the virtual enviroment)

sudo pip3 install mysqlclient

Upvotes: 3

danblack
danblack

Reputation: 14761

mysqlclient has a dependency on the mysql client & dev packages being installed. In order to fix this on ubuntu, you have to use apt-get to install a couple of mysql packages.

In your case, it looks like the missing mysql_config might be missing on your system. You can fix that by installing libmysqlclient-dev on ubuntu bionic.

Upvotes: 27

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