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 You may need to install the Python 3 and MySQL development headers and libraries like so:
 
-* `$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev build-essentials`  # Debian / Ubuntu
+* `$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev build-essential`  # Debian / Ubuntu
 * `% sudo yum install python3-devel mysql-devel`  # Red Hat / CentOS
 
 Then you can install mysqlclient via pip now: