[rhelv6-list] Installing MySQLdb for python2.7 in RHEL 6

[Bryan J Smith]

Any reason you guys aren't using [Red Hat] Software Collections
([RH]SCL) [1a] or Downstream (e.g., CentOS) [1b]?  Related Red Hat
Solution Article. [2]

Understand you're attempting to load newer, Upstream software on
older, sustained RHEL releases.  That's rarely ideal, and you're going
to be upgrading and breaking things.

Instead, use what Red Hat came up with ...

Red Hat came up with Software Collections so one can run newer
database (e.g., MariaDB), scripting language (e.g., PHP, Python,
etc...) and other versions, on older RHEL releases, like RHEL6.  And
Red Hat then maintains them (i.e., security backports) for 3+ years.
[3]

All supported, without all of the hacking and mess of trying to
replace the core RHEL packages.  They are installed under /opt and
enabled using a set of fully supported Red Hat tools and procedures.

E.g., the list of versions included with [RH]SCL 2.1, most supported
through 2018, are in the 2.1 Release Notes, Section 1.2 [4], and
include ...
 - PHP 5.6.5 (w/Pear 1.9.5), among earlier (5.5 and 5.4) versions
 - Python 2.7.8 and Python 3.4.2
 - MariaDB 10.0.17 and MySQL 5.6.24
... among others

Again, Software Collections is by Red Hat and designed to co-exist
with core scripting languages included with RHEL, while still
sustained for 3+ years from release, with Red Hat regularly releasing
newer Software Collection versions (about every 18-24 months or so).

-- bjs

[1a] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-software-collections/
[1b] https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/

[2] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/472793

[3] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhscl

[4] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/2/html/2.1_Release_Notes/chap-RHSCL.html#sect-RHSCL-Features


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Bryan J Smith - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith