The following assumes you are running Ubuntu Linux.

Note: all of these commands require sudo.

Install MySQL

apt-get update

apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

Note: You will be prompted to create a password for the database "root" account during the installation. REMEMBER IT!

Install Python MySQL Package

apt-get update

apt-get install python-mysql

apt-get install python3-mysql

See the Following:

• PEP 249 -- Python Database API Specification v2.0
• _mysql Users Guide
• MySQLdb Users Giude