[Distutils] easy_install MySQL_python error

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Wed Jul 8 17:21:55 CEST 2009


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Christian Brodbeck wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am trying to install MySQL_python, but I get the following error:  
> "EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found" (complete terminal readout  
> below). I am using python 2.5 and the latest version of os X on a  
> macbook. I could not find anything in the mailinglist archive (using  
> google's site: search - is there a better way to search it?) and  
> easy_install page advises to write to this mailinglist if there are  
> problems, so I was wondering if anyone could help.

Likely you need to arrange for the 'mysql_config' utility to be on the
PATH when you run the script:  if the utility doesn't exist, that would
indicate that you need to install the MySQL client libraries for your
system.


Tres.
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