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After I installed Mariadb 10 the Mysql workbench and JPDB client both connect and work fine so next step was get programming with Python (using SQLAlchemy) which seems to require MySQL-python so I went to update that and got: "mysql_config not found" I looked in the "usual places" and did not see a file...

So I followed some ideas from an earlier question on SO and tried to install: apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

which got me to: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libmysqlclient-dev : Depends: libmysqlclient18 (= 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.13.10.2) but 10.0.10+maria-1~saucy is to be installed

which kind of hits a brick wall for me

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Reset to default
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For Centos 7.0 install the following:

yum install mariadb-devel

For Fedora 23+:

dnf install mariadb-devel
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the question pertains to Ubuntu, not Centos 7.0.
@drs Never the less this answer is useful as this question shows up for generic linux searches
Why does a package by the name mariadb-devel contain mysql development libraries?
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Found it! The case is that mariadb has a compatible package, if you have the ppa setup as in http://downloads.mariadb.org/. Just 

sudo apt-get install libmariadbclient-dev

Thanks to http://data-matters.blogspot.com/2013/08/install-mysql-python-with-mariadb.html After this the mysql-python installs correctly

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This is a solution to install libraries depend on mysql-dev on ubuntu. Thanks.
You can also just install 'libmariadbclient-dev' from Ubuntu, without the need for the custom ppa.
Worked for Ubuntu 18.04, however for Mac Mojave I had to do brew install mysql-connector-c
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There's NO solution on Ubuntu 16.04

Doing:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mariadb_config /usr/bin/mysql_config

Worked for me.

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Best answer for Ubuntu 16.04 !
This fixed the same issue on debian buster
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Install the following library: 

sudo apt-get install libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev

And create a symbolic link named mysql_config: 

ln -s /usr/bin/mariadb_config /usr/bin/mysql_config
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This was it. Something is rotten in the state of ubuntu 16
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For Debian/Ubuntu PPA from https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/

for MariaDB 10.1: apt-get install libmariadbclient-dev
for MariaDB 10.2: apt-get install libmariadb-dev
for MariaDB 10.3: apt-get install libmariadb-dev-compat

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On Ubuntu 17.04 the following worked for me

sudo apt-get install default-libmysqlclient-dev
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Worked for me on debian as well
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For Debian Jessie: 

sudo apt-get install libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev 
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mariadb_config /usr/bin/mysql_config
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