upgraded to stretch, mariadb replaced mysql, broken client

[leveret]

I upgraded to stretch.

My mysql database migrated and I can read it. I have a django project that relies on libmysqlclient.so.18 to access mysql.

what should i do to make sure it can access it?

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    raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e)
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: libmysqlclient.so.18: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[dilberts_left_nut]

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[leveret]

thanks for the quick reply. can you tell me what package is libmariadb.so.3 part of? because it is not on my system...

[orythem27]

Try symlinking /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmariadbclient.so.18 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so.18 and see if it works?

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmariadbclient.so.18 is provided by libmariadbclient18

[leveret]

thanks.

I did

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ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmariadbclient.so.18 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so.18

as I already had libmariadbclient18 installed. but they do not seem to be compatible.

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    raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e)
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so.18: version `libmysqlclient_18' not found (required by /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/_mysql.so)

[leveret]

as a temporary fix, I installed the deb for libmysqlclient18 directly from here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/amd ... 5-0ubuntu1

but this doesn't seem like the right solution...