I am getting a strange error when trying to install mysqlclient on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial with pip + Python 3.6:
pip install mysqlclient
Output:
_mysql.c:40:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
Following the installation requirements, I have tried installing the required libraries, but not luck so far.
sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev
Does someone know the workaround for this issue?
I found the problem, seems like for installing mysqlclient in python3.6 the library python3.6-dev is required.
Just open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get install python3.6-dev libmysqlclient-dev
You may get the following error when trying to install the library:
Reading state information...
E: Unable to locate package python3.6-dev
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python3.6-dev'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python3.6-dev'
If that is the case, just try adding the following repository first:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6
sudo apt-get update
After doing so, you should be able to install both python3.6 and python3.6-dev packages.