Thanks David. I believe I am nearly there...one last hurdle I believe. So, I deleted all traces of the compiled version of MySQLdb. Meaning, I deleted it from:
$HOME/.python-eggs/MySQLdb*.egg /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MySQLdb*.egg (or whatever it was) And, I removed my compiled Python2.5.1 and will just use the system- installed 2.4.1 OK, so then I installed via YAST (SuSE's package manager) python-mysql 1.2.0-4. In the interpreter I tried "import MySQLdb" and it was fine. Great, on to Django....... I adjusted my settings.py and tried to launch Django, and was told: ImportError: MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have 1.2.0 Upon searching for something >1.2.0 as a SuSE package (to avoid re- entering the problem of compiling MySQLdb), I came up empty. But I see in the docs and release notes that you can use in Django's settings.py DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql_old'. Django now launches without error. But in continuing my Django tutorial, when trying to use "python manage.py syncdb", I am getting: _mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)") MySQL is in fact running, but the mysql.sock is in /tmp/mysql.sock . So I am now trying to find how to tell Django (or Python) that the file is in a different location. Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
