pip install mysql-connector==2.1.3 fails

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(ENV)$ pip install mysql-connector==2.1.3
Collecting mysql-connector==2.1.3
  Using cached mysql-connector-2.1.3.zip
Installing collected packages: mysql-connector
  Running setup.py install for mysql-connector
    usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
       or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
       or: -c --help-commands
       or: -c cmd --help
    error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized
    Complete output from command /<DIR>/ENV/bin/python2 -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-ImtJft/mysql-connector/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-FN9lfq-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /<DIR>/ENV/include/site/python2.7:
    usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]

       or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]

       or: -c --help-commands

       or: -c cmd --help



    error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized

    ----------------------------------------
    Command "/<DIR>/ENV/bin/python2 -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-ImtJft/mysql-connector/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-FN9lfq-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /<DIR>/ENV/include/site/python2.7" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-ImtJft/mysql-connector

This is the error. I have been trying to figure out the error. I did some searching around, but of no use. I am running Fedora 22. I checked to see if it could be if MySQL isn't installed. But mysql-devel and mysql-libs are installed. Please help.

EDIT: I tried:

easy_install mysql-connector==2.1.3

And it works. But why is pip failing?

Was this ever resolved? Running into the exact same error here. — jab, Nov 10 '16 at 21:08
Use https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mysql-connector-python, For my particular need I sticked with using easy_install — 0aslam0, Nov 11 '16 at 09:30

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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Your setuptools version might be outdated. try upgrading pip:

pip install --upgrade setuptools

You can find information about this error in this thread:

What does "error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized" indicate?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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answered Jul 22 '16 at 12:00

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This updated `setuptools 12.0.5 ` to `setuptools-24.3.0`. But the error still persists. I also updated the question. – 0aslam0 Jul 22 '16 at 12:08
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@0aslam0 if pip is still failing but easy_install works, you might want to also upgrade pip: `pip install --upgrade pip` – Tic Jul 24 '16 at 10:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 23 '17 at 11:29

I see this as old question, but the error seems to repeat at each mysql-connector upgrade, i download the sources from:

https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-Python/mysql-connector-python-2.1.6.tar.gz

unzip and enter into the folder and apply:

sudo python setup.py install

IMHO i think that the problem, at least in my case that use macOS, was the Xcode recently installed.

pip install mysql-connector==2.1.3 fails

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