How to fix no module named MySQLdb error with Python Django?

To fix no module named MySQLdb error with Python Django, we install the mysql-python package.

To do this, we run one of:

  1. easy_install mysql-python (any OS)
  2. pip install mysql-python (any OS/ Python 2)
  3. pip install mysqlclient (any OS/ Python 3)
  4. apt-get install python-mysqldb (Ubuntu, etc.)
  5. cd /usr/ports/databases/py-MySQLdb && make install clean (FreeBSD)
  6. yum install MySQL-python (Fedora, CentOS, etc.)

to install the mysql-python package.