title: Did you install mysqlclient?
body: <p>I have read every single post and googled for the last 4 hours to try to find a solution to this error.</p>
  
  <p>I am not running virtual environment, this server is just for django. 
  <br>Server: Ubuntu 16.04
  <br>python: 3.5.2</p>
  
  <p>I am getting this error</p>
  
  <pre><code>django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module.
  Did you install mysqlclient?
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>trying to install mysqlclient </p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo -H pip3 install mysqlclient
  Requirement already satisfied: mysqlclient in /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages (1.3.12)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>using ubuntu</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo apt-get install -y python3-mysqldb
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  python3-mysqldb is already the newest version (1.3.7-1build2).
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help is greatly appreciated </p>