Unable to install mysqlclient in Linux - mysql

Question

I have a Django project and I want to deploy it on a server. The project contains a requirements.txt file. Once uploaded to the server, all the packages have been installed except the mysqlclient package. I have tried different alternatives but can't seem to find a solution. Is there a way to install the mysqlclient in Linux?
This is my requirements.txt file:
certifi==2019.9.11
chardet==3.0.4
Django==2.2.6
idna==2.8
imutils==0.5.3
mysqlclient==1.4.6
numpy==1.17.2
opencv-python==4.1.1.26
python-dateutil==2.8.1
pytz==2019.3
six==1.13.0
sqlparse==0.3.0
Note:
I have used Python 3.7.3 and created the project inside a virtual
environment in the Windows system.
I installed Python 3.6.9 in the Linux server with no virtual
environment.
This is the error I am receiving when installing mysqlclient:
Building wheels for collected packages: mysqlclient
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for mysqlclient ... error
Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-uzuooif1/mysqlclient/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmplo_j8asrpip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:
/usr/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py:261: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'long_description_content_type'
warnings.warn(msg)
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/_exceptions.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/compat.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/connections.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/converters.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/cursors.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/times.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/CLIENT.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/CR.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/ER.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/FIELD_TYPE.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/FLAG.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
running build_ext
building 'MySQLdb._mysql' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -Dversion_info=(1,4,6,'final',0) -D__version__=1.4.6 -I/usr/include/mysql -I/usr/include/python3.6m -c MySQLdb/_mysql.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/_mysql.o
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/_mysql.o -lmysqlclient -lpthread -lz -lm -lrt -latomic -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/_mysql.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
----------------------------------------
Failed building wheel for mysqlclient
Running setup.py clean for mysqlclient
Failed to build mysqlclient
Installing collected packages: mysqlclient
Running setup.py install for mysqlclient ... error
Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-uzuooif1/mysqlclient/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-rdhxcu76-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
/usr/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py:261: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'long_description_content_type'
warnings.warn(msg)
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/_exceptions.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/compat.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/connections.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/converters.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/cursors.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/times.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/CLIENT.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/CR.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/ER.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/FIELD_TYPE.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/FLAG.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/constants
running build_ext
building 'MySQLdb._mysql' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -Dversion_info=(1,4,6,'final',0) -D__version__=1.4.6 -I/usr/include/mysql -I/usr/include/python3.6m -c MySQLdb/_mysql.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/_mysql.o
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/_mysql.o -lmysqlclient -lpthread -lz -lm -lrt -latomic -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/MySQLdb/_mysql.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-uzuooif1/mysqlclient/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-rdhxcu76-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-uzuooif1/mysqlclient/
Does anyone know how to install it properly?

Answer 1

Apparently, this is the solution which worked for me. The errors were:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto
Hence, I just used the command:
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
And mysqlclient is installed properly.
I was able to solve it due to #Aksr's help.