Thank you Mpaa and jayvdb for your instant help.
I have installed libmysqlcppconn-dev but it hasn't solved the problem. I'm
leaving oursql uninstalled for the now.
Thank you so much.
Tanu.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:26 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can remove oursql from requirements.txt.
>
> It is an optional dependency, and not frequently used.
>
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 06:05 Tanu Hari Dixit <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andre,
>> Thank you for the link.
>> I have been experiencing a lot of trouble while setting up dependencies
>> for pywikibot.  While installing 'oursql' the terminal shows the following
>> error:
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> mysql.h: No such file or directory
>>      #include "mysql.h"
>>                        ^
>>     compilation terminated.
>>     error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> This was probably because i didn't have mysql-c++ connector installed.
>> Hence, I installed the mysql-server. It automatically installed
>> mysql-client. Further, I downloaded the tar ball for my 64 bit ubuntu 14.04
>> system for mysql-c++ connector. I read the INSTALL file and it directed me
>> to download CMake and Boost. I did so and as the INSTALL file says:
>> "Run CMake to build a Makefile
>> me@host:/path/to/mysql-connector-cpp> cmake ."
>> So I change directory into the untarred folder ( of mysql-c++ connector
>> tarball ) and run the 'cmake .' command. However, my terminal shows that it
>> can't find any CMakeLists.txt files in the folder. When I searched for a
>> file with this name, I found that there are four of them in the 'boost'
>> folder at different levels (such as :
>>
>> /home/thd/Downloads/boost_1_59_0/libs/test/test/CMakeLists.txt
>>
>> /home/thd/Downloads/boost_1_59_0/libs/serialization/CMake/CMakeLists.txt
>> etc)
>> While this link (
>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-cpp/en/connector-cpp-installation-source.html
>> ) suggests that I do the following:
>>
>> cmake . -DBOOST_ROOT:STRING=/usr/local/boost_1_40_0
>>
>> but I can't seem to locate a folder named boost in /usr/local. Though, I
>> do find lots of .a and .so file with their names starting from libboost in
>> /usr/local/lib. Though, again it has no CMakeLists.txt file in it.
>> I'm unable to make this dependency work for me. It would be great if you
>> helped me in configuring this. I so want to contribute to pywikibot, and
>> learn in the process.
>> Thank you for bearing with me.
>> Tanu.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:53 AM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tanu,
>>>
>>> thanks for your interest!
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 00:22 +0530, Tanu Hari Dixit wrote:
>>> > I am Tanu, a third year undergraduate from Indian Institute of
>>> > Technology, BHU, Varanasi, India. I have had prior experience
>>> > designing a REST API in Python for which I collaborated to use
>>> > various APIs available and Beautiful Soup as well as Flask. I want to
>>> > contribute to pywikibot and am aiming at GSoC'16. Where should I
>>> > start? What should I do?
>>>
>>> Have you checked out
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs already?
>>> That page links to guides how to get started with development and it
>>> also links to Pywikibot tasks suited for new contributors.
>>>
>>> If something is unclear, please ask. Happy to help! :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> andre
>>> --
>>> Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
>>> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
>>>
>>>
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