This is the error I get
(mysite)zjm1126#zjm1126-G41MT-S2:~/zjm_test/mysite$ pip install mysql-python
Downloading/unpacking mysql-python
Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz (70Kb): 70Kb downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package mysql-python
sh: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
File "/home/zjm1126/zjm_test/mysite/build/mysql-python/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
sh: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
File "/home/zjm1126/zjm_test/mysite/build/mysql-python/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in /home/zjm1126/.pip/pip.log
(mysite)zjm1126#zjm1126-G41MT-S2:~/zjm_test/mysite$ pip install mysql-python
Downloading/unpacking mysql-python
Running setup.py egg_info for package mysql-python
sh: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
File "/home/zjm1126/zjm_test/mysite/build/mysql-python/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
sh: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
File "/home/zjm1126/zjm_test/mysite/build/mysql-python/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in /home/zjm1126/.pip/pip.log
What can I do to resolve this?
It seems mysql_config is missing on your system or the installer could not find it.
Be sure mysql_config is really installed.
For example on Debian/Ubuntu you must install the package:
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
Maybe the mysql_config is not in your path, it will be the case when you compile by yourself
the mysql suite.
Update: For recent versions of debian/ubuntu (as of 2018) it is
sudo apt install default-libmysqlclient-dev
In Mac OS, I simply ran this in terminal to fix:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
This is the quickest fix I found - it adds it to the path, but I think you're better off adding it permanently (ie add it to /etc/paths) if you plan to install MySQL-python in another environment.
(tested in OSX Mountain Lion)
There maybe various answers for the above issue, below is a aggregated solution.
For Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install python-dev
$ sudo apt install python-MySQLdb
For CentOS:
$ yum install python-devel mysql-devel
apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev python-dev
Seemed to do the trick.
If you are on MAC
Install this globally
brew install mysql
then export path like this
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
Than globally or in your venv whatever you like
pip install MySQL-Python
Note: globally for python3 as Mac can have both python2 & 3
pip3 install MySQL-Python
You can use the MySQL Connector/Python
Installation via PyPip
pip install mysql-connector-python
Further information can be found on the MySQL Connector/Python 1.0.5 beta announcement blog.
On Launchpad there's a good example of how to add-, edit- or remove data with the library.
For centos users:
yum install -y mysql-devel python-devel python-setuptools
then
pip install MySQL-python
If this solution doesn't work, and print gcc compile error like:
_mysql.c:29:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
You need to specify the path of Python.h, like this:
pip install --global-option=build_ext --global-option="-I/usr/include/python2.6" MySQL-python
I was trying to install mysql-python on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance and I had to install these :
yum install mysql mysql-devel mysql-common mysql-libs gcc
But then I got this error :
_mysql.c:29:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
So I installed :
yum install python-devel
And that did the trick.
For anyone that is using MariaDB instead of MySQL, the solution is to install the libmariadbclient-dev package and create a symbolic link to the config file with the correct name.
For example this worked for me:
ln -s /usr/bin/mariadb_config /usr/bin/mysql_config
For Linux
this works for me
yum install python-devel mysql-devel
Try sudo apt-get build-dep python-mysqldb
OSX Mavericks
Due to changes within osx mavericks & xcode development tools you may get the error on installation
clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]
therefore use :
sudo ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future pip install mysql-python
for mariadb install libmariadbclient-dev instead of libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get install libmariadbclient-dev
You should install the mysql first:
yum install python-devel mysql-community-devel -y
Then you can install mysqlclient:
pip install mysqlclient
I had the same problem in the Terraform:light container. It is based on Alpine.
There you have to install mariadb-dev with:
apk add mariadb-dev
But that one is not enough because also all the other dependencies are missed:
apk add python2 py2-pip gcc python2-dev musl-dev
sometimes the error depends on the actual cause. we had a case where mysql-python was installed through the python-mysqldb debian package.
a developer who didn't know this, accidentally ran pip uninstall mysql-python and then failed to recover with pip install mysql-python giving the above error.
pip uninstall mysql-python had destroyed the debian package contents, and of course pip install mysql-python failed because the debian package didn't need any dev files.
the correct solution in that case was apt-get install --reinstall python-mysqldb which restored mysql-python to its original state.
Sequence to be followed.
pip install mysqlclient
sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev
pip install configparser
sudo cp /usr/lib/python3.6/configparser.py /usr/lib/python3.6/ConfigParser.py
Then try to install the MYSQL-python again. That Worked for me
On Mac:
brew install mysql-client
locate mysql
mdfind mysql | grep bin
then add to path
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-client/8.0.23/bin/
or permanently
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-client/8.0.23/bin/" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc
Had a similar issue trying to install on OS X Server 10.6.8. Here's what I had to do.
Using:
MySQL-python 1.2.4b4 (source)
MySQL-5.6.19 (binary installer)
Python 2.7 (binary installer)
NOTE: Installing in virtualenv...
Unzip source, open 'distribute_setup.py' and edit DEFAULT_VERSION to use the latest version of distribute tools, like so:
DEFAULT_VERSION = "0.6.49"
Save. Open 'site.cfg' file and uncomment the path to mysql_config so it looks something like (reference your own path to mysql_config):
# The path to mysql_config.
# Only use this if mysql_config is not on your PATH, or you have some weird
# setup that requires it.
mysql_config = /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
Now clean, build and make will not fail with the 'mysql_config' not found error.
Hope this helps someone else trying to make use of their old xserves :-)
Your sudo path does not know about your local path... go into superuser mode, add the path, and install it from there.
sudo su
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin/
pip install mysql-python
exit
And you're up and running on OSX. Now you have an updated global python.
if you install MySQL-python in your virtual env, you should check the pip version, if the version is older than 9.0.1, please update it
pip install --upgrade pip
write on 27 Aug, 2021
my macos version is BigSur(14.4), and mysql version is mysql8. It seems like in the higher version of mysql, they delete the my_config.h files but change to the mysql.h.
so your guys should run the following shell:
cd /usr/local/include/mysql
cp mysql.h my_config.h
after that, run pip install MySQL-python and everything will be ok.
on MacOS Mojave, mysql_config is found at /usr/local/bin/ rather than /usr/local/mysql/bin as pointed above, so no need to add anything to path.
In my case my database is running on container and my flask app is running on another container when i tried updating code app got broke with error
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
/bin/sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: mariadb_config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-bya8e734/mysqlclient/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "/tmp/pip-build-bya8e734/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 65, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs")
File "/tmp/pip-build-bya8e734/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 31, in mysql_config
raise OSError("{} not found".format(_mysql_config_path))
OSError: mysql_config not found
Key in stack trace is
/bin/sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
because where my flask app is running doesn't have mysql client properly configured so first i installed mysql server and then install
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.7 -y
Then started MySQL
mansoor#LARC-mansur:~/Documents/clients/HR/DevopsSimulator/web$ sudo systemctl start mysql
Then install flask-mysql package and this time it worked
mansoor#LARC-mansur:~/Documents/clients/HR/DevopsSimulator/web$ sudo pip3 install flask-mysqldb
This is different case but posting here because may be someone else in the world facing same issue
sudo pip install mysqlclient is failing with the famous mysql_config path error
The database is a remote mysql RDS. I tried to install a local mysql using yum (not that i need it) but that didn't help with the error
[ec2-user#ip-172-31-95-95 /]$ sudo pip install mysqlclient
Collecting mysqlclient
Using cached mysqlclient-1.3.12.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
sh: mysql_config: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-opVvwg/mysqlclient/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 44, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 26, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-opVvwg/mysqlclient/
[ec2-user#ip-172-31-95-95 /]$
[ec2-user#ip-172-31-95-95 /]$ cat /etc/*-release
NAME="Amazon Linux AMI"
VERSION="2017.09"
ID="amzn"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="2017.09"
PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09"
ANSI_COLOR="0;33"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2017.09:ga"
HOME_URL="http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/"
Amazon Linux AMI release 2017.09
[ec2-user#ip-172-31-95-95 /]$
First you have to do some initial setup for the compiler of mysql on the os, at least from what I understand.
Make sure you have compiler collection
sudo yum install gcc
Make sure mysql is configured for development purposes
sudo yum install -y mysql-devel
Try to reinstall
pip install mysqlclient==1.3.12
Hope this helps since it seemed to do the trick for me. I came across this here where I found for the equivalent to ubuntu's sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
I'm attempting to install mysqlclient using the command:
pip install mysqlclient
but i get the following error:
Using cached mysqlclient-1.3.12.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
/bin/sh: mysql_config: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/private/var/folders/8d/xdwdnphs1w5b_vtxrc67__5h0000gn/T/pip-build-ifu54299/mysqlclient/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "/private/var/folders/8d/xdwdnphs1w5b_vtxrc67__5h0000gn/T/pip-build-ifu54299/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 44, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "/private/var/folders/8d/xdwdnphs1w5b_vtxrc67__5h0000gn/T/pip-build-ifu54299/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 26, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
OSError: mysql_config not found
I uninstalled python3 using brew uninstall --force python3 and downloaded the binary from pythons website but to no avail. I also attempted to download mysql connector from oracle website and again to no avail. I have tried upgrading pip again still doesnt work.
PS mysql is running in a docker container and i'm running django on my local machine.
Any suggestions on why i'm getting an error attempting to install mysqlclient
For Python I can recommend pymysql is pretty good and I always use it.
https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL
or you can follow this answer
Installing MySQL Python on Mac OS X
you need to install mysql and mysql connector before install my sql client
brew install mysql
brew install mysql-connector-c
I have created a virtual environment,with python 3 and installed django
I cant install mysqlclient ,it says problem with setup.py
jayanthi#jayanthi-Aspire-4920:~$ source env/bin/activate
(env) jayanthi#jayanthi-Aspire-4920:~$ pip install mysqlclient
Collecting mysqlclient
Using cached mysqlclient-1.3.10.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
/bin/sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-4pbezvx6/mysqlclient/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "/tmp/pip-build-4pbezvx6/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 44, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "/tmp/pip-build-4pbezvx6/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 26, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
OSError: mysql_config not found
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-4pbezvx6/mysqlclient/
on Ubuntu you must install the package:
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
How do I install MySQL python through pip?
I recently upgraded to Mavericks and now none of my packages and dependencies are working.
I was successfully able to install pip via python ez_setup.py which i found from here Can't install via pip because of egg_info error
But still keep getting this error.
Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB): 108kB downloaded
Running setup.py (path:/private/tmp/pip_build_root/MySQL-python/setup.py) egg_info for package MySQL-python
sh: mysql_config: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
File "/private/tmp/pip_build_root/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 25, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
sh: mysql_config: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/xl/lsdkfj09485039845/T/pip_build_Name/mysql-python
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/Name/Library/Logs/pip.log
I also tried running the command line; export path command I found in here.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5178292/pip-install-mysql-python-fails-with-environmenterror-mysql-config-not-found
download the shell script found here
http://www.macminivault.com/mysql-mavericks/
copy and paste the contents into as a .sh file i named mine fixeverything.sh
then from terminal run sh fixeverything.sh
then i ran this command to link mysql
sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib