QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL driver not loaded but available

[artome]

I'm reviving this thread as it seems to be inactive without a answer to the problem and I was dealing with exactly the same problem for the past few days.
(with Opensuse 12.3, x86_64).

it seems that the compiled plugin that comes with the qt (qt-linux-opensource-5.1.0-x86_64-offline.bin) requires /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient_r.so.16 and opensuse comes with .18. So
doing
/usr/lib64 # ln -s libmysqlclient_r.so libmysqlclient_r.so.16

seems to solve the problem.

regards,