Ubuntu 14.04安装后如何运行Django

Question

I am brand new to programming, but hopefully someone can help and this makes sense.

When I run python from the terminal in Ubuntu it runs it from the following path.

/homeX/your_username/python27/bin/python

I used pip to install django which worked successfully, but it installed it to this path.

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Django

Therefore, when I run python in the terminal it can't find the django framework. Also, Ubuntu won't allow me to copy anything into the homeX/ directory so I can't manually add django either.

Answer 1

pip install django It will install into global and in any directory django-admin.py startproject to create your Django project.

So after installing django you can import django from the python shell

Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) 
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import django
>>> 

So as @Filly suggested use virtualenv is best for working with django and installing packages

pip install virtualenv==1.11.6 

after installing try below commands

virtualenv source/bin/activate

And after you are in virtual environment. Here you can install any packages Django or whatever it ll lie in environment only.

Answer 2

Django can work without virtual env in ubuntu

install django

sudo pip install django==1.7 
or 
Sudo pip install django==1.8

The path of django installation module repo

python -c "import sys; sys.path = sys.path[1:]; import django;
print(django.__path__)"

Now goto terminal

$ python


>>> import django
>>> django.VERSION

Now start a django project

1. sudo django-admin startproject project_name
2. cd project_name
3. python manage.py runserver or python manage.py runserver 8008
4. Goto browser --> localhost:8000 (8000 is default port)