That ticket you found suggests the real problem is not a missing mysqldb, but a too-old version. I know nothing of CentOS or yum -- is it possible there is a more uplevel package available for you to install? That would be the easiest solution. If not, you could download/build/install mysqldb yourself, as suggested in this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/788d7b4683388ebf/5a3a11b2540768ae One other option might be to use Django's mysql_old backend: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/98e68571ef8ea3a2/8bd50c74f9f31091 Karen On 11/12/07, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone! I'm trying to get one of our servers set up with Django, > and everything seems to work fine up until I try to syncdb. > > This is the output I get: > > manage.py syncdb > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "manage.py", line 11, in ? > execute_manager(settings) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/management/ > __init__.py", line 277, in execute_manager > utility.execute() > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/management/ > __init__.py", line 225, in execute > self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/management/ > base.py", line 70, in run_from_argv > self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/management/ > base.py", line 83, in execute > self.validate() > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/management/ > base.py", line 110, in validate > num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/management/ > validation.py", line 22, in get_validation_errors > from django.db import models, connection > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line > 23, in ? > backend = __import__('%s.base' % settings.DATABASE_ENGINE, {}, {}, > ['']) > ImportError: No module named mysql.base > > I did a search for "No module named mysql.base" and found > http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5531 but I'm not sure what I'm > supposed to do with the information found on that page. The platform > is CentOS 5 (I believe), and I am using rev. 6669 of Django. I > installed MySQL-python with yum. When I run python and import django > or import MySQLdb, I get no errors. I can communicate just fine with > the mysql database from the interactive shell. > > Ideas? Thanks! > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
