How to install MySQLdb package? (ImportError: No module named setuptools)

Question

I am trying to install MySQLdb package. I found the source code here.

I did the following:

gunzip MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz tar xvf MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar cd MySQL-python-1.2.3c1 python setup.py build 

As the result I got the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "setup.py", line 5, in ?     from setuptools import setup, Extension ImportError: No module named setuptools 

Does anybody knows how to solve this problem? By the way, if I am able to do the described step, I will need to do the following:

sudo python setup.py install 

And I have no system-administrator-rights. Do I still have a chance to install MySQLdb?

Thank you.

Answer 1

After trying many suggestions, simply using sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb worked for me.

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