django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have 1.2.1
To identify what package contains a specific file, you can use yum search.
For example:
yum search MySQLdb
returns
MySQL-python.x86_64 : An interface to MySQL
therefore MySQLdb can be updated by updating MySQL-python.
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