Hard time with installing MySQLdb for Python on Linux

Sat Jul 15 02:45:42 EDT 2006

In article <1152917899.248144.80310 at m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
 "gmax2006" <mapsetah2000-maillist5 at yahoo.ca> wrote:

>I am having hard time with installing MySQLdb on Linux.

...

>My Linux is "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant)"

Why don't you just use yum to install python-mysql or whatever the 
package is called, and have it automatically work out what else is 
needed?