migration history table does not exist

[Garrett]

this is my first attempt at using south and i am still fairly new to
django. i am working through the south tutorial and have received the
trace back below. it ends with: "Table
'django_south.south_migrationhistory' doesn't exist". i am currently
on step 2 of the tutorial and i am trying to run migrate for the first
time. i have checked the db and there are no tables in the django db
table. i am using Django version 1.2 pre-alpha SVN-11375. i see that
south is listed to be compatible with django 1.0. could this be the
problem? i hope this helps troubleshoot the issue. thanks for any help
that can be given.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./manage.py", line 11, in <module>
execute_manager(settings)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/
__init__.py", line 362, in execute_manager
utility.execute()
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/
__init__.py", line 303, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py", line 195, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/
base.py", line 222, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/South-0.5-py2.5.egg/south/
management/commands/migrate.py", line 81, in handle
skip = skip,
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/South-0.5-py2.5.egg/south/
migration.py", line 388, in migrate_app
if longuns:
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py",
line 112, in __nonzero__
iter(self).next()
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py",
line 106, in _result_iter
self._fill_cache()
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py",
line 692, in _fill_cache
self._result_cache.append(self._iter.next())
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py",
line 238, in iterator
for row in self.query.results_iter():
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/
query.py", line 287, in results_iter
for rows in self.execute_sql(MULTI):
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/
query.py", line 2369, in execute_sql
cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/util.py",
line 19, in execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/
base.py", line 84, in execute
return self.cursor.execute(query, args)
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line
166, in execute
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/MySQLdb/connections.py", line
35, in defaulterrorhandler
_mysql_exceptions.ProgrammingError: (1146, "Table
'django_south.south_migrationhistory' doesn't exist")

[Andrew Godwin]

If you're still having this issue, Garrett, you probably didn't run
./manage.py syncdb - I updated the docs a while back to add that.

Sorry for the delayed reply, Google's eating the "you need to moderate"
messages again.

Andrew