Using python 2.6.4 on slackware 13.1 I have MySQLdb 'by hand', that is: by 1)downloading MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz 2)unzipping tarfile 3)running python setup.py build 4)running python setup.py install
The build and install seemed to proceded without error, but upon invoking the interpreter and running >>> import MySQLdb I get the following ImportError: ############################################################## Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19, in <module> File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in <module> File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__ ImportError: libmysqlclient_r.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ############################################################## There was no libmysqlclient_r.so.15 on my machine, so I made symlinks at both /usr/lib/mysql/ and /usr/lib which are libmysqlclient_r.so.15 pointing to /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.16.0.0 Now when I run import MySQLdb, I get the following error: ############################################################## Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19, in <module> import _mysql File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in <module> File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__ ImportError: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.15: version `libmysqlclient_15' not found (required by /home/tim/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3c1-py2.6-linux-i686.egg-tmp /_mysql.so) ############################################################## # Note that the parenthesized expression beginning with "(required" # has been broken to accomodate the newsgroup - was one line [sigh!] I've been using python and mysql on linux for 10 years and have done many 'hand installs' and boy has it gotten complicated. Any ideas? thanks -- Tim tim at johnsons-web.com or akwebsoft.com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list