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How to install MySQLdb in a virtualenv on Ubuntu Karmic

Date: 2010-02-15 | Tags: install_setup, notestoself, python, ubuntu | 2 Comments

Install dependencies
```
sudo apt-get build-dep python-mysqldb
```

Install MySQLdb with pip/virtualenv

cd ~/lib/python-environments
virtualenv --distribute --no-site-packages default
pip install -E default/ MySQL-python

EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

The first time, I did not install the dependencies and got the following error:

$ pip install -E default/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/files/mysql-python-test/1.2.3c1/MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz/download
Downloading/unpacking http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/files/mysql-python-test/1.2.3c1/MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz/download
  Downloading download (89Kb): 89Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/files/mysql-python-test/1.2 ...

How to install pip on Ubuntu

Date: 2010-02-15 | Tags: install_setup, python, ubuntu | 1 Comment

Pip is a better alternative to Easy Install for installing Python packages. For more information on pip and its companion, virtualenv, see my blog post: Notes on using pip and virtualenv with Django.

Install Easy Install

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential

Install pip
```
sudo easy_install pip
```

Using psycopg2 with virtualenv on Ubuntu JauntyLucid

Date: 2009-07-31 | Modified: 2010-05-17 | Tags: install_setup, python, ubuntu | 15 Comments

Update 2009-11-02: Well I am dumb-- psycopg2 can be installed with pip/easy_install. The reason I got the error before was because I didn't have the required dependencies installed. On Ubuntu, I used apt-get build-dep. So, here's the summary:

Update 2009-11-11: My update doesn't work. See comments #4 and #5 below.

Update 2010-05-17: Here is what finally worked for me using Python 2.6 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx using virtualenv 1.4.8 and pip 0.7.1. Thanks to Daniel for the final piece of the solution.

Install dependencies

$ sudo apt-get build-dep python-psycopg2

Install ...

Notes on using pip and virtualenv with Django

Date: 2009-05-06 | Modified: 2010-04-26 | Tags: django, install_setup, python, ubuntu | 7 Comments

I have been using a symlinking method to install Python packages up to this point. To better handle dependencies and multiple versions I have wanted to switch over to pip and virtualenv. Pip is a better alternative to Easy Install and virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments. I have wanted to use pip and virtualenv for a long time now. Finally, today, I took my first steps and created an environment with the Python packages required for this blog. My notes are below. (I am running Ubuntu ~~Intrepid~~Karmic and Python ~~2.5~~2.6.)

A lot ...

Installing Python 2.6 from source on Ubuntu Hardy

Date: 2008-10-02 | Modified: 2008-10-03 | Tags: install_setup, linux, python, ubuntu | 12 Comments

Python 2.6 was released yesterday! This version aims to smooth the transition from Python 2.5 to Python 3.0 which is planned for release soon (currently available as a release candidate). Python 3.0 will be break backwards compatibility with the 2.x series. Python 2.6 is backwards compatible with 2.5. All the backwards compatible features of 3.0 have been backported to 2.6.

One of the new 2.6 features I'm particularly intersted in is the new multiprocessing module which has a similar interface to the threading module, but it uses processes instead ...

Somewhere on your Python path

Date: 2008-08-05 | Modified: 2008-12-16 | Tags: install_setup, preferences, python, ubuntu

As I install new python packages, I sometimes see instructions which say something like "check out the code, and place it somewhere on your Python path". These are very simple instructions, but since it is not automatic like a Windows installer, or Ubuntu's package management system, it causes me to pause. Where on my Python path should I put it? I could put all my packages in random places and update my PYTHONPATH environment variable every time. I also thought about putting new packages in Python's site-packages directory. This is probably a good option. However, I tend to ...

How to install Easy Install for Python

Date: 2007-01-10 | Modified: 2009-03-31 | Tags: install_setup, python | 2 Comments

Update 2009-03-31:

For current installation instructions on Windows and Cygwin, see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools.
For a better alternative to Easy Install, see pip by Ian Bicking

How to install Easy Install on Ubuntu Linux

$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential

How to install Easy Install on Windows

Go to http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#installing-easy-install
Right click on "ez_setup.py" and save the file to "c:\temp"
Open a cmd.exe prompt
"cd c:\temp"
"python ez_setup.py"

How to install Easy Install on Cygwin

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
$ python ...

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