python - pip install mysqlclient on Arch Linux

Question

I need to use MySQLdb in Python 3.7:

import MySQLdb

this should install through the command pip install mysqlclient which however gives me an error on Arch Linux. It seems prerequisites are missing. I see that on other distributions, like Ubuntu, these can be installed via the command:

sudo apt-get install python-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev

Solutions are available for other distro, but I could not find them for Arch Linux.

I recommend you do a search using: `pacman -Ss python mysql`, and there you will find the option you want. In general, if the package in pip is called foo in archlinux, the corresponding package is python-foo, in your case it would be: `sudo pacman -S python-mysqlclient` — eyllanesc, Sep 11 '19 at 17:41

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 11 '19 at 17:15

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In the end the solution was to install gcc and mysql

pacman -S gcc

pacman -S mysql

and just later run

pip install mysqlclient

answered Sep 11 '19 at 17:15

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 11 '19 at 16:33

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Does it work through pacman? pacman -S python-mysqlclient

answered Sep 11 '19 at 16:33

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 02 '22 at 21:41

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If you install 'python-mysqlclient' with pacman then you can install it without any problem.

pacman -S python-mysqlclient
pip install mysqlclient

answered Jan 02 '22 at 21:41

Remi Zlatinis

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