Comments on: Installation troubles with MySQLdb-python

By: DDevine

DDevine — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:09:22 +0000

You may also have to install mysql-devel — this was my issue (on CentOS 5.5).

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:45:57 +0000

Make sure you have installed python-devel (as the blog post says)

By: vinh

vinh — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:03:48 +0000

I had installed MySQL-python on using
$ yum install MySQL-python
but when i used command
import MySQLdb. it still not library in my machine
i use Linux CentOS and using x86_64
Please help me by send email to me:
tuanvinh100@gmail.com
thanks so much

By: kadimi

kadimi — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:38:19 +0000

I was getting similar error, Installing python-devel fixed it for me.

Thanks

By: Elchin J

Elchin J — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:27:18 +0000

Thanks Olivier! I would never imagine that the name of MySQLdb api in CentOS is like MySQL-python. It solved my problem! Great!

By: Evlilik Sitesi

Evlilik Sitesi — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:53:29 +0000

Awesome awesome post!!!

I’ve been trying to install mysqldb for the last hour on my centos box and had countless errors before I read the comment on this post. I had no clue I could yum MySQL-python.

It worked like a charm. Thanks Olivier and eflow!

By: Olivier Biot

Olivier Biot — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:29:58 +0000

Thanks for this information!

For the record, apparently the MySQLDB Python package in CentOS has a Mixed Case name: “MySQL-python”. The command to install this module on CentOS is:

$ yum install MySQL-python

Hope this helps!

Olivier