Solved: mysqlclient not being installed

  1. Open a terminal window.
  2. Type the following command and press Enter:
sudo apt-get install python3-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev build-essential
  1. This will install the required packages.
  2. Once the installation is complete, you can start using Python to connect to MySQL.

Here are some additional information about the packages that you are installing:

  • python3-dev: This package contains the development headers and libraries for Python 3.
  • default-libmysqlclient-dev: This package contains the development headers and libraries for the MySQL client library.
  • build-essential: This package contains a collection of essential development tools.

Now after we have installed all these, without any errors we can successfully install mysqlclient.

Open a terminal window.
Type the following command and press Enter:

pip install mysqlclient


This will successfully install the mysqlclient package.

Here are some additional information about the mysqlclient package:

The mysqlclient package is a Python library that provides a MySQL database adapter.
The mysqlclient package is available for Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9.
The mysqlclient package can be installed using pip.

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