Installing mysql connector for my Python Flask Application

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I've (partially) successfully installed my Flask application. When I call init.py via SSH, it fires up and throws the error ImportError: No module named mysql.connector

Which is to be expected, as I haven't installed that yet.

As I can't operate as root, how can I install the dependancies that my Flask application has?

TIA

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You can install packages with pip. More information is available in our python documentation.

For the MySQL connector, I was able to install this from PyPI (using its external link) as follows:

pip install --user --allow-external mysql-connector-python mysql-connector-python

If your Flask application uses a virtual environment, you could install this package into your virtualenv instead of into your main account by activating your application's virtualenv first. In that case, you wouldn't use the "--user" flag.

Hope that helps!

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answered 14 Jan '15, 01:59

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Thanks ryans, ran that, still get the error ImportError: No module named mysql.connector, but I can see that mysql has now installed...so seems I need to go and educate myself a whole lot more. If you've got any ideas as to what the problem might be, they'd be gratefully received!

(16 Jan '15, 19:47) Ben Mayo

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