Centos – Install libthesqlclient on CentOs 7

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I am trying to build mysql-shell 1.0.11 from src. RPMs are not an option when I am installing. One of the requirements is libmysqlclient 5.7+. I have installed mysql++, mysql++-devel, mysql-connector-python.noarch, and mysql-workbench-community. When I try to build (Cmake) I get the following error.

Could not find static "libmysqlclient_r.a libmysqlclient.a" in MYSQL_LIB_DIR

What do I need to have installed to make this work? Obviously I need libmysqlclient, but there is nothing listed in yum with that name or close to that name.

Using CentOs7.

TIA

Best Answer

yum whatprovides can find package with specific command or lib, for example:

sudo yum whatprovides libmysqlclient*

1:mariadb-libs-5.5.56-2.el7.i686 : The shared libraries required for
                                 : MariaDB/MySQL clients
Repo        : base
Matched from:
Provides    : libmysqlclient.so.18
Provides    : libmysqlclient.so.18(libmysqlclient_16)
Provides    : libmysqlclient.so.18(libmysqlclient_18)

and

sudo yum install mariadb-libs-5.5.56-2.el7.i686

But I'm not sure it's a good idea to install mysql-shell from src, when you can get with simple yum install mysql

Package might not be installed

When people give you information like this you need to make sure you qualify what it actually is. The name libmysqlclient is the name of the share library files that are part of this package, mysql-libs, typically.

You can use repoquery to look for a corresponding package(s) to start:

$ repoquery --whatprovides *libmysqlclient*
mysql-libs-0:5.1.71-1.el6.x86_64
mysql-devel-0:5.1.71-1.el6.x86_64
mysql-libs-0:5.1.71-1.el6.i686
mysql-devel-0:5.1.71-1.el6.i686
abi-compliance-checker-0:1.99.8.5-1.el6.noarch

If you understand how packages get named, then the .so files which are "libraries" are in the -libs packages quite often.

$ repoquery -l mysql-libs-0:5.1.71-1.el6.x86_64 | head -9
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/mysql-x86_64.conf
/etc/my.cnf
/usr/lib64/mysql
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.16
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.16
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.16.0.0
/usr/share/doc/mysql-libs-5.1.71
/usr/share/doc/mysql-libs-5.1.71/COPYING
...

Here you can see the file you're asking about, libmysqlclient. So you can see this particular package would provide you with .so.16.

Package is already installed

If the files were already installed on the system and you knew that libmysqlclient was a file then you can look to RPM for this info:

$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.16

But this would require you to know where this file resided. So instead you can use yum to "search" for it:

$ yum whatprovides "*libmysqlclient*"

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