mysql module not working without installing python modules, solved

[Jaakko Hyvätti]

Hi,

Original symptom was:

'mysql' __virtual__ returned False: mysql.py: No python mysql client installed.

As this was not obvious to me, I'm sharing.. to get mysql features working, on Ubuntu LTS 22.04, after just running the bootstrap script, I needed to do:

/opt/saltstack/salt/bin/python3 -m pip install mysql

I did not first understand that the system python3-mysqldb or python3-pymysql packages are not used. Would this have been avoided with some option/other method in installing the minion? Should this be in documentation?

Regards,

Jaakko