John Nagle wrote: > On 7/4/2010 6:36 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote: >> hi Tim, >> This seems more likely to be a MySQLdb problem than a Python one. Have >> you considered asking in the MySQLdb forums? >> >> On Jul 4, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Tim Johnson wrote: >> >>> 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 > > Did you install the development libraries for MySQL first? > Those are needed to build MySQLdb yourself. > > John Nagle By that I think you mean libmysqlclient_r.so* and so forth, if so, yes. The question has become moot, as I recently did an upgrade from slack 13.0 to 13.1, and I've decided to procede with a clean install. So I'm dropping this inquiry and I'll keep my development on ubuntu for the time being. thanks for the help
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