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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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) :)
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)
Also, you can see the build dependencies in the file setup.cfg
For Python 2.7, one can easily install using this
apt-get install python2.7-mysqldb
I resolved this issue on centos5.4 by running the following command to install setuptools
yum install python-setuptools
I hope that helps.
This was sort of tricky for me too, I did the following which worked pretty well.
chmod
the egg to be executable: chmod a+x [egg]
(ie, for Python 2.6, chmod a+x setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg
)./[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.
After trying many suggestions, simply using sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb
worked for me.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys
from **distutils.core** import setup, Extension
if sys.version_info < (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)
@main:
$ su
$ yum install MySQL-python
and it will be installed (MySQLdb).
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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