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mysqlclient related errors in ubuntu

mysqlclient installation with error in ubuntu solved

Bug

/bin/sh: 1: pkg-config: not found

Exception: Can not find valid pkg-config name. Specify MYSQLCLIENT_CFLAGS and MYSQLCLIENT_LDFLAGS env vars manually

Install build dependencies

Install build dependencies ( specially - pkg-config )

bash
sudo apt-get install python3-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev build-essential pkg-config

Reference

Could not build wheels for cffi

Bug

Building wheels for collected packages: cffi, mysqlclient
  Building wheel for cffi (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building wheel for cffi (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [56 lines of output]

ERROR: Could not build wheels for cffi, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Solved

I just installed libffi-dev with sudo apt-get install libffi-dev and it worked.

bash
sudo apt-get install libffi-dev

Reference