Compile and install python with mysql for users

To run custom python version for a useraccount:

download the latest version of python

$ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/Python-2.6.5.tgz
$ tar xvzf Python-2.6.5.tgz
$ cd Python-2.6.5
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/username/python-2.6.5
$ make
$ make install


Install setuptools
as root:

# ln -s /home/username/python-2.6.5/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/ *this is required for setuptools

as normal user:

$ wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11.tar.gz#md5=7df2a529a074f613b509fb44feefe74e
$ tar xvzf setuptools-0.6c11.tar.gz
$ sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg --prefix=~/python-2.6.5/


download mysql-python

$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mysql-python/mysql-python-test/1.2.3c1/MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz?use_mirror=citylan
$ tar xvzf MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz
$ cd MySQL-python-1.2.3c1
$ /home/username/python-2.6.5/bin/python setup.py build
$ /home/username/python-2.6.5/bin/python setup.py install