I have a Docker image that is based on debian:buster-slim and I am deploying my application to it which connects to a mysql database.
I have installed mysql-client:
apt-get install -y default-mysql-client.
My dbdriver requires the 'libmysqlclient.so.21' library which weirdly does not come with the default-mysql-client library. So I tried to install it separately using apt-get install libmysqlclient21 but I get:
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libmysqlclient21
After some research, I found out that people are installing default-libmysql-dev but this did not solve my problem either.
What can I do to be able to download this package on a Docker container? Specifically, on a debian based container.
I managed to install it only after adding the mysql software repository:
cd /tmp && wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_${MYSQL_VERSION}_all.deb
dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_${MYSQL_VERSION}_all.deb
apt update
apt-get install -y libmysqlclient21