PyMySQL installation instructions

Steel Rides

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Apr 9, 2021, 1:14:55 PM4/9/21

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I'm installing Trac 1.4 on Ubuntu 18.04 and while there are instructions for using MySQL, the recommendation is to use PyMySQL. I'm not familiar with PyMySQL, but it seems like it serves to allow Python to interact with a MySQL server, so I still need to install the MySQL server and create a trac database and then use PyMySQL to interact with it. Are there installation instructions for configuring the Trac installation to use PyMySQL? What is the connection string since mysql://tracuser:password@localhost/trac isn't supported anymore?

Thanks.

RjOllos

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Apr 11, 2021, 4:37:16 PM4/11/21

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On Friday, April 9, 2021 at 10:14:55 AM UTC-7 steel...@raidoh.com wrote:

I'm installing Trac 1.4 on Ubuntu 18.04 and while there are instructions for using MySQL, the recommendation is to use PyMySQL. I'm not familiar with PyMySQL, but it seems like it serves to allow Python to interact with a MySQL server, so I still need to install the MySQL server and create a trac database and then use PyMySQL to interact with it. Are there installation instructions for configuring the Trac installation to use PyMySQL? What is the connection string since mysql://tracuser:password@localhost/trac isn't supported anymore?

Thanks.

PyMySQL replaces MySQLdb as the Python interface to MySQL. The connection string remains the same. Besides the need to install PyMySQL rather than MySQLdb, the change does not impact the installation steps.

Ryan

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Apr 12, 2021, 4:16:23 PM4/12/21

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Great. Thanks for the clarification. I misunderstood the error that "mysql" was unsupported.

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