How to locate MySQL header files to compile qt

Question

From the qt documentation:

You need the MySQL header files and as well as the shared library libmysqlclient.so. Depending on your Linux distribution you may need to install a package which is usually called "mysql-devel". [emphasis added]

How do I get these? I tried apt-get install mysql-devel but apt-get told me it was Unable to locate package mysql-devel. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try using package: libmysqlclient-dev.

You can use apt-cache search ... to find packages.