Install mysql-python on Mavericks

August 22, 2014

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sudo pip install mysql-python
# EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

I need to add /usr/local/mysql/bin to $PATH, so in terminal I zshconfig, find export PATH=" and add /usr/local/mysql/bin. Now it becomes this,

export PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$HOME/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin"

and sudo pip install mysql-python works.

Then, when I try to use MySQLdb to connect MySQL, in terminal I get Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib. To solve this, run the following in terminal,

sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib

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