error command errored out with exit status 1 pip install

Question

I use python vitrualenv and when I want to install any packages by pip install <package name> I take that error:

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /home/user/project/some_project_name/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-sifdsjjx/MySQL-python/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-sifdsjjx/MySQL-python/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-sifdsjjx/MySQL-python/pip-egg-info
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-sifdsjjx/MySQL-python/
    Complete output (7 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-sifdsjjx/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
        from setup_posix import get_config
      File "/tmp/pip-install-sifdsjjx/MySQL-python/setup_posix.py", line 2, in <module>
        from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser'
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

I use python 3.7.0 pip 20.0.2

https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bmysql-python%5D+ModuleNotFoundError%3A+No+module+named+ConfigParser — phd, Apr 30 '20 at 18:44

Giorgos Myrianthous · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-30T14:09:51.890

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Try to upgrade setuptools:

pip install --upgrade setuptools

UPDATE

As mentioned in the comments, you are attempting to install MySQL-python which is a very old package (last release was made back in 2014).

You can however install a more recent one, called MySQLdb which is a thin python wrapper around C module which implements API for MySQL database:

pip install mysqlclient

edited Apr 30 '20 at 14:09

answered Apr 30 '20 at 14:00

Giorgos Myrianthous

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```Requirement already up-to-date: setuptools in ./lib/python3.7/site-packages (46.1.3)``` – Maksym Shchedrov Apr 30 '20 at 14:03
@МаксимЩедров What package are you trying to install? – Giorgos Myrianthous Apr 30 '20 at 14:04
I am trying to install MySQL-python package – Maksym Shchedrov Apr 30 '20 at 14:08
@МаксимЩедров I updated my answer. Hope it helps now. – Giorgos Myrianthous Apr 30 '20 at 14:14
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Yes, it's helped me thank you!!! – Maksym Shchedrov Apr 30 '20 at 14:18

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 30 '20 at 14:03

Did you install the SQL client dev pacakge on your system?

sudo apt install libmysqlclient-dev

if you are using mariadb, the drop in replacement for mysql, then run

sudo apt install libmariadbclient-dev

then try again

error command errored out with exit status 1 pip install

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