The download link 404s and the fallback URL links are re-directing infinitely due to 's recent upgrade and PyPI's stale URL. If you look at pip's installation log, or if you do a pip install -Iv MySQL_python=1.2.2 you'll find that the PyPI URL link does not work for MySQL_python v1.2.2. However, you'll soon find out that this doesn't work. Since you already have an installed version, you should either uninstall the current existing driver or use pip install -I MySQL_python=1.2.2 Ivvv).įor more information, see pip install -helpįirst, I see two issues with what you're trying to do. You can combine for even more verbosity (i.e. -I stands for -ignore-installed which will ignore the installed packages, overwriting them.Thanks to for highlighting this (and it seems that the context of the question has broadened given the time when the question was first asked!), the documentation for Python discusses a caveat with using -I, in that it can break your installation if it was installed with a different package manager or if if your package is/was a different version. -force-reinstall is an option to reinstall all packages even if they are already up-to-date.

For example: pip install -force-reinstall -v 'MySQL_python=1.2.2'

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