How to install MySQLdb package? (ImportError: No module named setuptools)
Question: I am trying to install MySQLdb package. I found the source code
[here](https://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/files/).

I did the following:

    
    
    gunzip MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz
    tar xvf MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar
    cd MySQL-python-1.2.3c1
    python setup.py build
    

As the result I got the following:

    
    
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "setup.py", line 5, in ?
        from setuptools import setup, Extension
    ImportError: No module named setuptools
    

Does anybody knows how to solve this problem? By the way, if I am able to do
the described step, I will need to do the following:

    
    
    sudo python setup.py install
    

And I have no system-administrator-rights. Do I still have a chance to install
MySQLdb?

Thank you.


Answer: After trying many suggestions, simply using `sudo apt-get install python-
mysqldb` worked for me.

More info: [Getting "Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named MySQLdb" \-
have tried previously posted
solutions](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2952187/getting-error-loading-
mysqldb-module-no-module-named-mysqldb-have-tried-pre)

