Using PIP In A Virtual Environment, How Do I Install MySQL-python

When I'm in my virtual environment, I attempt to run: pip install MySQL-python This didn't work, so I tried downloading the package and installing it by running: python setup.py i

Solution 1:

The reason this was occurring is because I need to install the python-dev package (which I stupidly assumed had already been installed).

% sudo apt-get install python-dev

followed by

% pip install MySQL-python

Solution 2:

You might also need to install libmysqlclient-dev in some Ubuntu installations

sudo apt-get install python-dev libmysqlclient-dev

That's what was holding me back (on top of python-dev).