Re: Installing Django on Ubuntu

Hi,

To add to what Martin said, I use a bash alias to activate my environments, which makes it easier than navigating to that directory every time I wanted to activate a specific environment.

There's a great guide for this here: http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2009/05/notes-using-pip-and-virtualenv-django/

It's slightly old but it covers most of what is required.

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Martin Tiršel <django@blackpage.eu> wrote:

Hello,

only short reply:

1.) Don't use distro packages for python packages
2.) Instal some libraries you will need (libmysqlclient-dev, python-dev, build-essential, python-setuptools, ...)
3.) Install virtualenv (either using distro package or easy_install/pip if you want/need newer one), create new empty virtual environment (I am using ~/.virtualenv for all environments):

virtualenv --no-site-packages ~/.virtualenv/django-1.2

4.) switch into that environment:

source ~/.virtualenv/django-1.2/bin/activate

5.) install python packages using pip or easy_install you will need:

pip install "django=1.2.5"
pip install mysql-python
pip install south
...

6.) start your project:

django-admin.py startproject someproject

and so on.

Remember, everytimes you want to work with that environment, you need to switch into it (uning source path/bin/activate). Many people beginnning with virtualenv forget this :)

Regards,
Martin

On Sat, 28 May 2011 04:27:42 +0200, DogGoesOut <elizabethfalkner09@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey, can anyone help me out? For some reason, django is not as easy as
it would appear to install on my ubuntu laptop. Here are the stats:
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, and have Python 2.6
installed already,

So far, I've installed a subversion successfully, and am attempting to
create a symbolic link from django to python:

ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/local/bin/django-admin.py': File
exists
kyle@kyle-HP-Compaq-nx9420-GU760US-ABA:~$ cd ~/sites/dev
bash: cd: /home/kyle/sites/dev: No such file or directory
kyle@kyle-HP-Compaq-nx9420-GU760US-ABA:~$ python /path/to/django-trunk/
django/bin/django-admin.py startproject djangoblog
python: can't open file '/path/to/django-trunk/django/bin/django-
admin.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
kyle@kyle-HP-Compaq-nx9420-GU760US-ABA:~$ python /usr/local/bin/django-
admin.py startproject djangoblog
python: can't open file '/usr/local/bin/django-admin.py': [Errno 2] No
such file or directory
kyle@kyle-HP-Compaq-nx9420-GU760US-ABA:~$

Ignoring the middle (which included a typo or two) there's a statement
at the end of this code that makes no sense to me. The third line up
from the bottom, calls the file from the first line

 /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py

In the first line, this file is stated to exist. In the error message,
the computer states that it can't open the same file, and that no such
file or directory exists. This seems self-contradictory, and I'm not
sure where to go from here, as my python interpreter cannot understand
django yet. Any advice would be very much appreciated!

Thanks!

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