Heya... The mysql driver is apparently not configured/enabled in the default configuration of Qt, the 4.6 version you're seeing is a version in Extras, uploaded by someone (bricks ?) separately. IIUC this has little to do with PyQt, it should be able to use whatever plugin is present in the Qt install. The best I can suggest is to try to get hold of the maintainer of the qt-mysql community package and convince him to update his package... If that happens, you'll be able to use it from PyQt (or any Qt application for that matter).