I decided to use brew which is a 3rd party community doing unix-like things on macOS. In the thread, it mentions to use apt-get but I had trouble running this command in terminal, and I learned that apt-get is only for debian and ubuntu, whereas yum is for centos/fedora/redhat distribution. In the error, it indicated that mysql_config: command not found so I found this thread referring to it in my search: Raise EnvironmentError('%s not found' % (_mysql_config_path,))ĮRROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

Using cached Flask-MySQLdb-0.2.0.tar.gz (2.1 kB) Yet, when I ran it, I kept receiving these errors: ~ % pip install flask_mysqldb To install flask-mysqldb, the command to run is: pip install flask_mysqldb I wanted to install flask-mysqldb to connect the Flask API to the MySQL database we were planning on using. In this post, I will go through how I was able to install flask-mysqldb after going through lots of trial and error.

Brew install mysql client