How to install MySQLdb package ImportError No module named setuptools

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I am trying to install MySQLdb package  I found the source code here   I did the following   gunzip MySQL-python-1 2 3c1 tar gz tar xvf MySQL-python-1 2 3c1 tar cd MySQL-python-1 2 3c1 python setup py build   As the result I got the following   Traceback  most recent call last     File  setup py   line 5  in       from setuptools import setup  Extension ImportError  No module named setuptools   Does anybody knows how to solve this problem  By the way  if I am able to do the described step  I will need to do the following   sudo python setup py install   And I have no system-administrator-rights  Do I still have a chance to install MySQLdb   Thank you

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This was sort of tricky for me too  I did the following which worked pretty well    Download the appropriate Python  egg for setuptools  ie  for Python 2 6  you can get it here  Grab the correct one from the PyPI site here   chmod the egg to be executable  chmod a x  egg   ie  for Python 2 6  chmod a x setuptools-0 6c9-py2 6 egg  Run    egg   ie  for Python 2 6    setuptools-0 6c9-py2 6 egg    Not sure if you ll need to use sudo if you re just installing it for you current user  You d definitely need it to install it for all users

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For Python 2 7  one can easily install using this      apt-get install python2 7-mysqldb

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usr bin env python  import os import sys from   distutils core   import setup  Extension  if sys version info  lt   2  3       raise Error  Python-2 3 or newer is required    if os name     posix       from setup posix import get config else    assume windows     from setup windows import get config  metadata  options   get config   metadata  ext modules      Extension sources    mysql c      options   metadata  long description     metadata  long description   replace r  n       setup   metadata

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main     su   yum install MySQL-python   and it will be installed  MySQLdb

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If MySQLdb s now distributed in a way that requires setuptools  your choices are either to download the latter  e g  from here  or refactor MySQLdb s setup py to bypass setuptools  maybe just importing setup and Extension from plain distutils instead might work  but you may also need to edit some of the setup   py files in the same directory    Depending on how your site s Python installation is configured  installing extensions for your own individual use without requiring sysadm rights may be hard  but it s never truly impossible if you have shell access  You ll need to tweak your Python s sys path to start with a directory of your own that s your personal equivalent of the system-wide site pacages directory  e g  by setting PYTHONPATH persistently in your own environment  and then manually place in said personal directory what normal installs would normally place in site-packages  and or subdirectories thereof

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Also  you can see the build dependencies in the file setup cfg

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I am experiencing the same problem right now  According to this post you need to have a C Compiler or GCC  I ll try to fix the problem by installing C compiler  I ll inform you if it works  we ll I guess you don t need it anymore  but I ll post the result anyway

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After trying many suggestions  simply using sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb worked for me   More info   Getting  quot Error loading MySQLdb module  No module named MySQLdb quot  - have tried previously posted solutions

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When you need to install modules in Linux Unix and you lack sudo   admin rights  one simple way around it is to use the user scheme installation  basically run    python setup py install --user  from the command line in the folder of the module   library to be installed   see http   docs python org install index html for further details

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well installing C compiler or GCC didn t work but I found a way to successfully install mysqldb package   kindly follow Mike schrieb s  Thanks to him  instructions here   In my case  I used setuptools-0 6c11-py2 7 egg and setuptools-0 6c11   Then download the executable file here then install that file  hope it helps

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I resolved this issue on centos5 4 by running the following command to install setuptools  yum install python-setuptools  I hope that helps

[python] How to install MySQLdb package? (ImportError: No module named setuptools)

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