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Im currently hosted on a shared hosting plan and the Python MySQLdb module is not installed. Is there a way to install Project Sycamore without the MySQLdb?

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Im currently hosted on a shared hosting plan and the Python MySQLdb module is not installed. Is there a way to install Project Sycamore without the MySQLdb?

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Sycamore currently requires either MySQL 5 or PostgreSQL and the associated Python interface to database. You should be able to install the Python MySQLdb module yourself by downloading and compiling from source. If MySQL is not installed, you will need to discuss installing it with your web hosting service provider. Q. I’m receive this operational error” when running buildDB.py: _mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1071, ‘Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes’) A. Make sure you are running MySQL with the InnoDB engine (the default for MySQL 5).