Error : pip OSError: mysql_config not found

While installing mysqlclient package from pip, you may get above error.

Package name could be like this in requirements.txt.

mysqlclient @ git+https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python.git@ca630c01fb39f252a4c91a525e440beea4ac4447

Solution :

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

For recent versions of debian/ubuntu (as of 2018) it is

sudo apt install default-libmysqlclient-dev