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"pip3 install mysqlclient" failing on openSUSE
On Wednesday 5 May I decided to give openSUSE Linux a try, primarily to see how
it works, and also to see if I can get QRetail running on it. Aside from having
to figure out the YAST2 console interface and use zypper in place of rpm,
things went pretty well.
Until I attempted to install mysqlclient using pip install mysqlclient. It
failed with the following unexpected error message:
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
The problem was the linker was searching for a file named libz.so, but there
wasn’t one on the system. There was the following:
suse:/lib64 # ls -l /lib64/libz* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr 27 12:41 /lib64/libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.11 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 92216 Apr 27 12:41 /lib64/libz.so.1.2.11
All that was needed to fix the problen was create a new symlink:
cd /lib64 ln -s libz.so.1.2.11 libz.so
However, I quickly reverted openSUSE back to CentOS for a couple of reasons:
- Their build of Midnight Commander can’t do
cd sh://<host>to use FISH (file transfer over SSH) - A strange interaction between the old version of konsole on my admittedly
ancient Fedora and openSUSE’s ncurses produced unreadable output when
running QRetail.