Trying to install mariadb module with pip

ubuntu@ubuntu-VirtualBox:~$ python3.6 -m pip install mariadb

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable

Collecting mariadb

  Using cached mariadb-1.0.0.tar.gz (78 kB)

    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:

     command: /usr/bin/python3.6 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-q0guo7wf/mariadb/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-q0guo7wf/mariadb/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-q9xhl_p0

         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-q0guo7wf/mariadb/

    Complete output (8 lines):

    mariadb_config: unrecognized option '--cc_version'

    Traceback (most recent call last):

      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>

      File "/tmp/pip-install-q0guo7wf/mariadb/setup.py", line 26, in <module>

        cfg = get_config(options)

      File "/tmp/pip-install-q0guo7wf/mariadb/mariadb_posix.py", line 50, in get_config

        if cc_version[0] < required_version:

    IndexError: list index out of range

    ----------------------------------------

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.