diff --git a/.ebextensions/python27.config b/.ebextensions/python27.config
index 717384315..0d7b06efb 100644
--- a/.ebextensions/python27.config
+++ b/.ebextensions/python27.config
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ commands:
     command: grep "python2.7" 03deploy.py || sed -i 's/--distribute/--python=python2.7 &/' 03deploy.py
     cwd: /opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/pre
 
-  updatedistribute:
-    command: easy_install -U distribute
-
 container_commands:
   # Now that our app is installed using python2.7 we
   # need to fix some paths that the wsgi configuration
diff --git a/requirements-nover.txt b/requirements-nover.txt
index 4f7a3d3b2..9a45a60cd 100644
--- a/requirements-nover.txt
+++ b/requirements-nover.txt
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ Flask-Login
 Flask-Mail
 python-dateutil
 boto
-MySQL-python
\ No newline at end of file
+pymysql
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 321bcc6c1..c442ed8c9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ Flask-Mail==0.9.0
 Flask-Principal==0.4.0
 Jinja2==2.7.1
 MarkupSafe==0.18
-MySQL-python==1.2.3
+PyMySQL==0.5
 Werkzeug==0.9.4
 argparse==1.2.1
 blinker==1.3
 boto==2.13.3
-distribute==0.6.28
 itsdangerous==0.23
 peewee==2.1.4
 py-bcrypt==0.4