Shared object access problems

[Tim Johnson]

* Philip Semanchuk <philip at semanchuk.com> [100704 18:13]:
> hi Tim,
> This seems more likely to be a MySQLdb problem than a Python one. 
  You are correct

> Have you considered asking in the MySQLdb forums?
  Didn't know there was one!
    where is it?
    I will join

  thanks
  tim
> 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
>> ##############################################################
>> There was no libmysqlclient_r.so.15 on my machine, so I made
>> symlinks at both /usr/lib/mysql/ and /usr/lib which
>> are libmysqlclient_r.so.15 pointing to
>> /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.16.0.0
>>
>> Now when I run import MySQLdb, I get the following error:
>> ##############################################################
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>  File "MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
>>    import _mysql
>>  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: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.15:
>>  version `libmysqlclient_15' not found
>>   (required by
>>    /home/tim/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3c1-py2.6-linux-i686.egg- 
>> tmp
>>     /_mysql.so)
>> ##############################################################
>> # Note that the parenthesized expression beginning with "(required"
>> # has been broken to accomodate the newsgroup - was one line
>> [sigh!] I've been using python and mysql on linux for 10 years and
>> have done many 'hand installs' and boy has it gotten complicated.
>> Any ideas?
>> thanks
>>
>> -- 
>> Tim
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>

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Tim 
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