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I am installing a custom app that needs MySQL, which I already had working so I am a bit confused on what's going on.

Anyways here is the error:

Error loading MySQLdb module: this is MySQLdb version (1, 2, 4, 'final', 1),
  but _mysql is version (1, 2, 3, 'final', 0

Tried

sudo pip uninstall MySQL-python

then

sudo pip install MySQL-python

which worked... 

Successfully installed MySQL-python

still the same error 

Error loading MySQLdb module: this is MySQLdb version (1, 2, 4, 'final', 1), 
  but _mysql is version (1, 2, 3, 'final', 0
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  • http://askubuntu.com/questions/5121/how-do-i-report-a-bug – Panther Nov 07 '13 at 17:20
  • Please provide more information about your system, eg. which version of Ubuntu are you using? Which python version? – ergysdo Nov 07 '13 at 17:23
  • using Ubuntu 13.04, I am unsure of what mysql is installed... what command do I run to check? – Guardian Nov 07 '13 at 17:30
  • Try mysql --version – Dan Nov 07 '13 at 20:03
  • mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.34, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 6.2 – Guardian Nov 07 '13 at 20:36
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It seems that apt-get and pip each installed their own version of the library.

Try removing system MySQL with sudo apt-get remove python-mysqldb, and you should have something like this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  python-mysqldb
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
After this operation, 196 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 109333 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing python-mysqldb (1.2.3-2ubuntu1) ...
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