From: Jack Fredrikson <jackfredrikson at yahoo.com> > Upon trying to run django, I get this error: > ImproperlyConfigured: MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have 1.2.1 > If I run yum update mysql I don't upgrade (expected). What do? Why are you trying to update mysql when the error says 'MySQLdb'? Check also the version... mysql is 5.x; not 1.x. # yum whatprovides */MySQLdb ... MySQL-python-1.2.1... on CentOS 5 MySQL-python-1.2.3... on CentOS 6. How did you install django? There are django packages from repoforge and elrepo... JD