[Zope] Connecting to MySQL

Geoffrey L. Wright geoff@northernwastes.org
14 Feb 2001 01:30:37 -0900


"Donald Braman" <donald.braman@yale.edu> writes:

> I'm finding it difficult to put all the pieces together to MySQL
> enable Zope. I know I need MySQL-python-0.3.x and the ZMySQLDA
> ... and that to install those I need distutils ... but I'm running
> MySQL 3.23.33 on RedHat 7.0 and the distutils setup.py is conking
> out (I think) because all the directories are different. Is there an
> easier way? If not, can someone hold my hand a bit and tell me what
> files/directories I need to specify in the setup.py. I'm fairly new
> (two days with) Zope, (one day with) MySQL, and Python. -Don

Is is giving you a specific error message?  I remember beating my head
against the wall on this one as well, but I don't remember the
solution off the top of my head.  Do you have MySQL and Python both
installed via RPM?

//glw