How to install mysql-connector via pip
If loading via pip install mysql-connector
and leads an error Unable to find Protobuf include directory
then this would be useful pip install mysql-connector==2.1.4
mysql-connector
is obsolete, so use pip install mysql-connector-python
. Same here
pip install mysql-connector
Last but not least,You can also install mysql-connector via source code
Download source code from:https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/
To install the official MySQL Connector for Python, please use the name mysql-connector-python
:
pip install mysql-connector-python
Some further discussion, when we pip search
for mysql-connector
at this time (Nov, 2018), the most related results shown as follow:
$ pip search mysql-connector | grep ^mysql-connectormysql-connector (2.1.6) - MySQL driver written in Pythonmysql-connector-python (8.0.13) - MySQL driver written in Pythonmysql-connector-repackaged (0.3.1) - MySQL driver written in Pythonmysql-connector-async-dd (2.0.2) - mysql async connectionmysql-connector-python-rf (2.2.2) - MySQL driver written in Pythonmysql-connector-python-dd (2.0.2) - MySQL driver written in Python
mysql-connector (2.1.6)
is provided on PyPI when MySQL didn't provide their officialpip install
on PyPI at beginning (which was inconvenient). But it is a fork, and is stopped updating, sopip install mysql-connector
will install this obsolete version.
And now
mysql-connector-python (8.0.13)
on PyPI is the official package maintained by MySQL, so this is the one we should install.