From c39fb36759fa827a2f6457a5b61586f9853e745e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Collin Anderson Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 23:27:19 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Prerequisites for Installing to help out newcomers --- README.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 258db63b..e11752cc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -7,3 +7,12 @@ This is a fork of [MySQLdb1](https://github.com/farcepest/MySQLdb1). This project adds Python 3 support and bug fixes. I hope this fork is merged back to MySQLdb1 like distribute was merged back to setuptools. + +Prerequisites for Installing +---------------------------- + +You may need to install the Python and MySQL development headers and libraries like so: + +`sudo apt-get install python-dev libmysqlclient-dev` # Debian / Ubuntu + +`sudo yum install python-devel mysql-devel` # Red Hat / CentOS