Hi,
I am facing a problem when i am trying to run the django server using python manage.py runserver.The problem is that the server is not starting because it gives the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 12, in <module>
execute_manager(settings)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 340, in execute_manager
utility.execute()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 295, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 192, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 210, in execute
translation.activate('en-us')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/utils/translation/__init__.py", line 73, in activate
return real_activate(language)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/utils/translation/__init__.py", line 43, in delayed_loader
return g(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 209, in activate
_active[currentThread()] = translation(language)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 198, in translation
default_translation = _fetch(settings.LANGUAGE_CODE)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 181, in _fetch
app = getattr(__import__(appname[:p], {}, {}, [appname[p+1:]]), appname[p+1:])
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from django.contrib.admin.options import ModelAdmin, HORIZONTAL, VERTICAL
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 5, in <module>
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/contenttypes/models.py", line 1, in <module>
from django.db import models
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
backend = __import__('%s%s.base' % (_import_path, settings.DATABASE_ENGINE), {}, {}, )
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 13, in <module>
raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e)
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named MySQLdb

Please provide me the steps to install and configure MySQLdb

Hi.
You have to install MySQL module:
MySQLdb
On Debian, I install it this way:
aptitude install python-mysqldb
That shoul be the problem.

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