Django MySQLdb version doesn't match _mysql version Ubuntu

Question

I'm trying to get a django site deployed from a repository. I was almost there, and then changed something (I'm not sure what!!) and was back to square one.

Now I'm trying to run ./manage.py syncdb and get the following error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: this is MySQLdb version (1, 2, 3, 'final', 0), but _mysql is version (1, 2, 2, 'final', 0)

I've searched forums for hours and none of the solutions presented helped. I tried uninstalling and re-installing MySQL-python and upgrading it. I get the same error when trying to import it from the python command line interpreter.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

I got the same problem after installing mysql-python using pip. Seems to be an error in the pip package. I solved it by pip uninstall'ing it again, after which i downloaded and installed the package manually like this:

• # download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
• $ tar xfz MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz (replace with newest version)
• $ cd MySQL-python-1.2.3
• $ python setup.py build
• $ sudo python setup.py install