installing mysql for python within virtual environment
I went through other similar questions, but none of the stuffs mentioned there, served my purpose. My OS is ubuntu 11.04, What i did was created a virtual environment first:

    virtualenv mysite

once this was done, i installed django 

    pip install django==1.3

post django installation i tried to install mysql interface for python: 

    pip install MySQL-python 

this gave me an error:

    Downloading/unpacking MySQL-python
      Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz (70Kb): 70Kb downloaded
      Running setup.py egg_info for package MySQL-python
        sh: mysql_config: not found

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    
      File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
    
      File "/home/build/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
    
        metadata, options = get_config()
    
      File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
    
        libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
    
      File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config
    
        raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
    
    EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

i further tried: 

    python -c "import MySQLdb"
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    ImportError: No module named MySQLdb

Please help, thanks. 
installing mysql for python within virtual environment
===

I went through other similar questions, but none of the stuffs mentioned there, served my purpose. My OS is ubuntu 11.04, What i did was created a virtual environment first:

    virtualenv mysite

once this was done, i installed django 

    pip install django==1.3

post django installation i tried to install mysql interface for python: 

    pip install MySQL-python 

this gave me an error:

    Downloading/unpacking MySQL-python
      Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz (70Kb): 70Kb downloaded
      Running setup.py egg_info for package MySQL-python
        sh: mysql_config: not found

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    
      File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
    
      File "/home/build/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
    
        metadata, options = get_config()
    
      File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
    
        libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
    
      File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config
    
        raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
    
    EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

i further tried: 

    python -c "import MySQLdb"
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    ImportError: No module named MySQLdb

Please help, thanks. 