error installing MySQL-python on RHEL 6

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votes

I have tried yum install MYSQL-python, pip install MySQL-python and easy_install MySQL-python.

Get this error: error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Cleaning up...
Command /usr/local/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_root/MySQL-python/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-rpOkcR-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/MySQL-python
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pip", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('pip==1.5.6', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg/pip/__init__.py", line 185, in main
    return command.main(cmd_args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 161, in main
    text = '\n'.join(complete_log)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 65: ordinal not in range(128)

yum install worked and it said: Package MySQL-python-1.2.3-0.3.c1.1.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version.

But when i open python and type : import MySQLdb it says ImportError: No module named mysqldb

Even tried manually installing gcc via yum install gcc or yum install python-devel...all didnt work.

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2 Answers

0
votes

Set your terminal encoding to UTF-8, run following in terminal:

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
0
votes

found the answer: yum install mysql-devel.x86_64

Seems like yum install mysql-devel didnt do it. Had to be more specific..

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