Shared object access problems

[Philip Semanchuk]

hi Tim,
This seems more likely to be a MySQLdb problem than a Python one. Have  
you considered asking in the MySQLdb forums?

On Jul 4, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:

> Using python 2.6.4 on slackware 13.1
> I have MySQLdb 'by hand', that is: by
> 1)downloading MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz
> 2)unzipping tarfile
> 3)running python setup.py build
> 4)running python setup.py install
>
> The build and install seemed to proceded without error,
> but upon invoking the interpreter and running
>>>> import MySQLdb
> I get the following ImportError:
> ##############################################################
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/MySQLdb/__init__.py",
>    line 19, in <module>
>  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/_mysql.py",
>    line 7, in <module>
>  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/_mysql.py",
>    line 6, in __bootstrap__
> ImportError: libmysqlclient_r.so.15:
>  cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> ##############################################################
> There was no libmysqlclient_r.so.15 on my machine, so I made
> symlinks at both /usr/lib/mysql/ and /usr/lib which
> are libmysqlclient_r.so.15 pointing to
> /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.16.0.0
>
> Now when I run import MySQLdb, I get the following error:
> ##############################################################
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
>    import _mysql
>  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/_mysql.py",
>    line 7, in <module>
>  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/_mysql.py",
>   line 6, in __bootstrap__
> ImportError: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.15:
>  version `libmysqlclient_15' not found
>   (required by
>    /home/tim/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3c1-py2.6-linux-i686.egg- 
> tmp
>     /_mysql.so)
> ##############################################################
> # Note that the parenthesized expression beginning with "(required"
> # has been broken to accomodate the newsgroup - was one line
> [sigh!] I've been using python and mysql on linux for 10 years and
> have done many 'hand installs' and boy has it gotten complicated.
> Any ideas?
> thanks
>
> -- 
> Tim
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