The sysbench shows the libmysqlclient.so.18: No such file or directory" error

Issue

The sysbench shows the following error:

sysbench: error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.18: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Environment

• CloudLinux OS 7/8
• any control panel

Solution

Try to install the mysqlclient18-compat package by performing the following command:

yum install mysqlclient18-compat --enablerepo=mysqclient

Cause

There is a missing package mysqlclient18-compatthat contains libmysqlclient.so.18library.