Problems installing MySQLdb...

[trace s. ruggles]

Hi, I'm having the darndest time installing MySQLdb in Python 2.0 running on
FreeBSD.

Below is the interaction I get.  /distutils/sysconfig.py is looking for
config/Makefile which doesn't exist, but I've never had a directory named
"config" at the top-level.  No matter how many times I've tried to
re-install Python.

Does anyone out there have a clue about what's going on?

Additional info: I'm running a virtual private server through Verio and I'm
trying to install this on a local version of Python (hence the
/usr/home/axiomfir prefix on everything).

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axiomfire% ../../python setup.py install
running install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 103, in ?
    extra_objects=extra_objects,
  File "/usr/home/axiomfir/usr/local/lib/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/core.py",
line 138, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/home/axiomfir/usr/local/lib/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/dist.py",
line 829, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/home/axiomfir/usr/local/lib/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/dist.py",
line 848, in run_command
    cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
  File "/usr/home/axiomfir/usr/local/lib/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/cmd.py",
line 112, in ensure_finalized
    self.finalize_options()
  File 
"/usr/home/axiomfir/usr/local/lib/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/command/install.p
y", line 255, in finalize_options
    (prefix, exec_prefix) = get_config_vars('prefix', 'exec_prefix')
  File 
"/usr/home/axiomfir/usr/local/lib/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py",
line 372, in get_config_vars
    func()
  File 
"/usr/home/axiomfir/usr/local/lib/Python-2.0/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py",
line 284, in _init_posix
    raise DistutilsPlatformError, my_msg
distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: invalid Python installation: unable
to open /usr/home/axiomfir/usr/local/lib/Python-2.0/config/Makefile (No such
file or directory)
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