Distutils error on a VPS

[Darek Kedra]

"tracy s. ruggles" <trace at reinventnow.com> wrote in message news:<B74CEE2D.2C66%trace at reinventnow.com>...
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> _mysql.c:41: mysql.h: No such file or directory
> _mysql.c:42: mysqld_error.h: No such file or directory
> _mysql.c:43: errmsg.h: No such file or directory
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

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I've got the very same messages on Linux Mandrake 8.0. 
Installing MySQL-devel solved this problem. Do you have
'/usr/include/mysql' and '/usr/lib/mysql' ?

Greetings

Darek Kedra