Mysql does not connect

Trying to change sqllite to mysql in settings.py

DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'mysql', 'NAME': 'djangodb51', 'USER': 'djangodb51', 'PASSWORD': '*******', 'HOST': 'localhost', 'PORT': '3306', } } 

Gives out

 Validating models... Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method Command.inner_run of <django.contrib.staticfiles.management.commands.runserver.Command object at 0x2921fbcc>> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 92, in inner_run self.validate(display_num_errors=True) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 280, in validate num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/validation.py", line 28, in get_validation_errors from django.db import models, connection File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 40, in <module> backend = load_backend(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE']) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 34, in __getattr__ return getattr(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS], item) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 93, in __getitem__ backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE']) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 45, in load_backend raise ImproperlyConfigured(error_msg) django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: 'mysql' isn't an available database backend. Try using 'django.db.backends.XXX', where XXX is one of: u'mysql', u'oracle', u'postgresql_psycopg2', u'sqlite3' Error was: No module named mysql.base 

In Pythone newbie so far, tell me where to dig?
System Freebsd 9.1, Python2.7, Django 1.5.0.

I tried it on a new machine: system Freebsd 10, Python2.7, Django 1.7.0.

Same.

  File "./manage.py", line 10, in <module> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 385, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 354, in execute django.setup() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 21, in setup apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 108, in populate app_config.import_models(all_models) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 197, in import_models self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module __import__(name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/models.py", line 40, in <module> class Permission(models.Model): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 125, in __new__ new_class.add_to_class('_meta', Options(meta, **kwargs)) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 300, in add_to_class value.contribute_to_class(cls, name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/options.py", line 166, in contribute_to_class self.db_table = truncate_name(self.db_table, connection.ops.max_name_length()) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 40, in __getattr__ return getattr(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS], item) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 242, in __getitem__ backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE']) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 126, in load_backend raise ImproperlyConfigured(error_msg) django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: 'mysql' isn't an available database backend. Try using 'django.db.backends.XXX', where XXX is one of: u'mysql', u'oracle', u'postgresql_psycopg2', u'sqlite3' 

Although it works fine with sqlite.