error code 1 on pip install MySQL-python

Question

I'm trying this on osX:

pip install MySQL-python

But I'm getting this error:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip-build-istycM/MySQL-python/

This is the full message:

Collecting MySQL-python
 Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB)
 100% |████████████████████████████████| 112kB 189kB/s 
 Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
 sh: mysql_config: command not found
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/private/tmp/pip-build-istycM/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
 metadata, options = get_config()
 File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
 libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
 File "setup_posix.py", line 25, in mysql_config
 raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
 EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
 ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip-build-istycM/MySQL-python/

• Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: Did you try installing the MySQL development files?

Answer 1

Make sure mysql_config is in your PATH when you run pip install, e.g.:

locate mysql_config
PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin/:$PATH pip install mysql-python