There are quite a few solutions, e.g. hosting a private repository, but the quickest was to change the requirements.txt file to download from mysql's cdn.
i.e., to change:
mysql-connector-python==1.0.12
to
https://cdn.mysql.com/Downloads/Connector-Python/mysql-connector-python-2.1.15.tar.gz
Answer from Amnon on Stack OverflowThere are quite a few solutions, e.g. hosting a private repository, but the quickest was to change the requirements.txt file to download from mysql's cdn.
i.e., to change:
mysql-connector-python==1.0.12
to
https://cdn.mysql.com/Downloads/Connector-Python/mysql-connector-python-2.1.15.tar.gz
For all the lazy people like me who had to google how the requirements file works
just do this ...
echo https://cdn.mysql.com/Downloads/Connector-Python/mysql-connector-python-2.1.3.tar.gz >> requirements.txt
then this.
sudo -H pip install -r ./requirements.txt
check it.
pip list | grep mysql
It should output:
mysql-connector-python (2.1.3)
happy days Thanks to @Amnon
Several things. There is an inconsistency in package naming so you may want to do:
pip search mysql-connector
to find out what it is called on your platform. I got two results mysql-connector-python and mysql-connector-repackaged.
so try this first:
pip install mysql-connector-python
this may additionally give an error like this:
Some externally hosted files were ignored (use
--allow-external mysql-connector-python to allow).
so finally this should do the job:
pip install mysql-connector-python --allow-external mysql-connector-python
Solution I found:
sudo pip install mysql-connector-python-rf
If you see this error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized, try this:
sudo pip install --egg mysql-connector-python-rf