Installation Troubleshooting - CellProfiler/CellProfiler GitHub Wiki
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Reported in 2529.
$ pythonw CellProfiler.py
MySQL could not be loaded.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/cellprofiler/modules/exporttodatabase.py", line 75, in <module>
import MySQLdb
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-x86_64/egg/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-x86_64/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in <module>
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-x86_64/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/*****/Library/Caches/Python-Eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.5-py2.7-macosx-10.5-x86_64.egg-tmp/_mysql.so, 2): Library not loaded: libssl.1.0.0.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/*****/Library/Caches/Python-Eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.5-py2.7-macosx-10.5-x86_64.egg-tmp/_mysql.so
Reason: image not found
OS X 10.5 managed by Homebrew. Installation from source using conda.
brew install --upgrade openssl
brew unlink openssl && brew link --overwrite openssl --force
ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/{VERSION}/include/openssl /usr/local/include/openssl