How to fix the ERROR: unable to find mysqlclient library (libmysqlclient.*)

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Q) How to fix the mysql error ” ERROR: unable to find mysqlclient library (libmysqlclient.*) ” during the snort installation!

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ERROR: unable to find mysqlclient library (libmysqlclient.*)
checked in the following places
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/mysql
/usr/mysql/lib
/usr/lib/mysql
/usr/local
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/mysql
/usr/local/mysql/lib
/usr/local/lib/mysql
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During the installation of snort, when you execute the command ./configure –with-mysql you may get the above error( I got ) , I Google’d the error to find a resolution, but can’t find a direct resolution. But I found a command `–with-mysql-libraries=DIR’ which specifies the location for mysql client library. So I executed the command
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