diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 467b67d..481ecbc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 Which is based on [Keep A Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+- fix: install python-mysqldb package
 
 ## [v1.0.0] - 2019-02-23
 - first version
diff --git a/tasks/main.yml b/tasks/main.yml
index 0b9de18..43761e5 100644
--- a/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tasks/main.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 ---
 - name: install package
   package:
-    name: mariadb-server
+    name: '{{ packages }}'
+  vars:
+    packages:
+      - mariadb-server
+      - python-mysqldb
   retries: 2
   register: result
   until: result is succeeded
diff --git a/test/integration/default/serverspec/default_spec.rb b/test/integration/default/serverspec/default_spec.rb
index 71c2afe..83d55a2 100644
--- a/test/integration/default/serverspec/default_spec.rb
+++ b/test/integration/default/serverspec/default_spec.rb
@@ -7,8 +7,13 @@ puts '================================'
 puts %x(ansible --version)
 puts '================================'
 
-describe package('mariadb-server') do
-  it { should be_installed }
+%w[
+  mariadb-server
+  python-mysqldb
+].each do |name|
+  describe package(name) do
+    it { should be_installed }
+  end
 end
 
 describe file('/etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf') do