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MySQLdb on Mac OS X 10.5.8
Posted by: Annet Vermeer
Date: October 17, 2009 10:34AM

On my Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.8, I have the latest XCode tools and Python 2.5 installed. I installed MySQL 5.1 from the package version. I also got the MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz which Mac unzipped in the downloads folder.

To get installation instructions I read the following blog entry:

MySQL, Python and MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
http://blog.some-abstract-type.com/2009/09/mysql-python-and-mac-os-x-106-snow.html

Since I don't know much about Unix, I don't understand the instructions provided here.

shell> PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"
shell> tar xzf MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz
shell> cd MySQL-python-1.2.3c1
shell> ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" /usr/bin/python setup.py build
shell> /usr/bin/python setup.py install

I don't know whether the $PATH has already been set.

Since MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz has already been unzipped; there is a folder MySQL-python-1.2.3c1 in the downloads folder, I assume I don't have to run shell> tar xzf MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz

MySQL-python-1.2.3c1 resides in the download folder so shell> cd MySQL-python-1.2.3c1 doesn't seem to make sense. Where should the folder go?

shell> ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" /usr/bin/python setup.py build
shell> /usr/bin/python setup.py install

I have no idea what the two lines of code above do. I downloaded the MySQL Installer Package for Mac OS X 10.5 x86 not x86-64.

Could you please provide me with more detailed instructions on how to get MySQLdb installed.


Kind regards,

Annet

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