On 28/06/2010 18:21, Susan Day wrote:

Hi; I'm trying to install django and got this error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have 1.2.1

So then I tried yum upgrade mysql and got this:

You should go and talk about this in the django lists, you clearly need very basic help.

Also, that message indicates you need a newer MySQL-python package, not mysql. Have you considered starting with a very basic tutorial on django and python first ? Getting some of the concepts right, early on, will help make sure you go a lot further.

- KB

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.

M