How To Install MySQL-python on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install MySQL-python on CentOS 7.
What is MySQL-python
Python interface to MySQL MySQLdb is an interface to the popular MySQL database server for Python. The design goals are - Compliance with Python database API version 2.0 - Thread-safety - Thread-friendliness (threads will not block each other) - Compatibility with MySQL 3.23 and up This module should be mostly compatible with an older interface written by Joe Skinner and others. However, the older version is a) not thread-friendly, b) written for MySQL 3.21, c) apparently not actively maintained. No code from that version is used in MySQLdb.
We can use yum or dnf to install MySQL-python on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install MySQL-python.
Install MySQL-python on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install MySQL-python using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install MySQL-python
Install MySQL-python on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install MySQL-python using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install MySQL-python
How To Uninstall MySQL-python on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the MySQL-python package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove MySQL-python
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install MySQL-python on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.