mysql_config - MySQL5 & python 2.5

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I'm on ubuntu Edge and have installed MySQL 5.0.24 via apt-get.

When I try to install MySQL-python-1.2.1_p2 the build fails
- the first complaint is that "mysql_config" is missing.

2$ ls /usr/bin/mysql_c*
/usr/bin/mysql_client_test /usr/bin/mysql_convert_table_format
/usr/bin/mysql_client_test_embedded /usr/bin/mysql_create_system_tables

Is "mysql_config" supposed to come with MySQL 5?

I have tried some of the older python drivers as well
- the one that comes closest to installing is MySQL-python-1.2.1c3
It does install in fact but fails at runtime because it's looking for
the wrong version of a shared lib...