Shared object access problems

[John Nagle]

On 7/4/2010 6:36 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
> hi Tim,
> This seems more likely to be a MySQLdb problem than a Python one. Have
> you considered asking in the MySQLdb forums?
>
> On Jul 4, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
>> Using python 2.6.4 on slackware 13.1
>> I have MySQLdb 'by hand', that is: by
>> 1)downloading MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz
>> 2)unzipping tarfile
>> 3)running python setup.py build
>> 4)running python setup.py install
>>
>> The build and install seemed to proceded without error,
>> but upon invoking the interpreter and running
>>>>> import MySQLdb
>> I get the following ImportError:
>> ##############################################################
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/MySQLdb/__init__.py",
>> line 19, in <module>
>> File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/_mysql.py",
>> line 7, in <module>
>> File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/_mysql.py",
>> line 6, in __bootstrap__
>> ImportError: libmysqlclient_r.so.15:
>> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    Did you install the development libraries for MySQL first?
Those are needed to build MySQLdb yourself.

				John Nagle