4.4.2.1 Using the MySQL Yum Repository

RedHat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Linux platforms can install Connector/Python using the MySQL Yum repository (see Adding the MySQL Yum Repository and Installing Additional MySQL Products and Components with Yum).

Prerequisites

• For installing X DevAPI only:Because the required python3-protobuf RPM package is not available for Python 3.8 on the RedHat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Linux platforms, it has to be manually installed with, for example, pip install protobuf. This is required for Connector/Python 8.0.29 or later.

• The mysql-community-client-plugins package is required for using robust authentication methods like caching_sha2_password, which is the default authentication method for MySQL 8.0 and later. Install it using the Yum repository

    $ sudo yum install mysql-community-client-plugins

Installation

Use the following commands to install Connector/Python:

$ sudo yum install mysql-connector-python

# Optionally, install also X DevAPI
$ sudo yum install mysqlx-connector-python