Question

Getting started with Django 1.3.1 and Upon running

python manage.py syncdb

with Python 2.6. I keep getting an error loading mysqldb module: No module named mysqldb message. I have tried doing sudo yum install python-mysql and sudo yum install python-mysqldb

on a CentOS 5 system but I get a “no package found” message and the error persists in django.

What’s the fix for this?
I would like to keep the Python version as 2.6 to preserve other dependencies so reinstalling 2.5 or something is out of the question.

Thanks!

Answer 1

There’s no point using the system packaging tools if you’re using a different Python version to the one provided by the system. You’ll have to use the Python packaging tools instead – eg easy_install mysqldb.