如何在Ubuntu 11.10上安装Django？

Question

I'm using The Definitive guide to installing Django on ubuntu and ironically need something more definitive because I can't make it work.

(I have followed the steps before this on the link above)

Here is my situation/standstill:

drewverlee@ubuntu:/var/src$ tar xzvf Django-1.3.1.tar.gz
tar (child): Django-1.3.1.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

So it tells me there is no file Django-1.3.1.tar.gz? I think I can check for a file by us by:

drewverlee@ubuntu:/var/src$ ls
index.html  index.html.1
drewverlee@ubuntu:/var/src$

What do I need to do?

Answer 1

pip is best tool for installing python packages. Here is link to install setup-tools and pip on ubuntu.

If you have installed pip then it will be very easy to install django and other python packages.

$ sudo pip install django

or for a specific version of django

$ sudo pip install django==1.3.1

Answer 2

If you're using ubuntu, then you can just use the package provided in the repositories:

$ sudo apt-get install python-django
...
$ python -c 'import django; print django.get_version()'
1.3

Answer 3

if you have easy_install:

easy_install django

and for a specific version:

easy_install django==1.#.#

Answer 4

Indeed, following the link I get the same problem, first.

mv index.html Django-1.3.1.tar.gz

fixes it for me. Then you can continue with

tar xzvf Django-1.3.1.tar.gz

Answer 5

Any guide that doesn't include virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper isn't definite enough for me :) Seriously, it will save you from a world of pain.

Also nginx + gunicorn now seems to be the default method for serving up django rather then Apache + mod_wsgi, but I'd say that that's less definite.

Answer 6

1) download Django-1.3.1.tar.gz https://www.djangoproject.com/download/

2) go into directory with the file

tar xzvf Django-1.3.1.tar.gz
cd Django-1.3.1
sudo python setup.py install

3) check if python sees django

>>> python
>>>import django
>>>print django.get_version()

After that you get Aptana as IDE to work with django