django-admin.py not running

Question

I'll add another django-admin.py question, as none of the other questions seem to cover my issue:

I've installed django via pip:

$ pip install django

My pip and Python versions are:

$ pip -V
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)

Specifically, python is version 2.7.14. At this point I expected to run

$ django-admin startproject myTestProject

which would then create my project folders in the current directory.

However, this returns

Cannot find installed version of python-django or python3-django

This confuses me, since when I ran

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin

Further, I checked where the file django-admin.py is located:

$ find -iname "django-admin.py"
./.local/bin/django-admin.py
./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py

So it seems like django-admin.py is in my PATH. Why then can I not run it?

(extra info: I do have python 3.6.3 installed, too. But I don't think this version has anything to do with pip or django.)

Answer 1

I recommend you always use a virtual environment manager with your Django projects, such as virtualenvwrapper ( pip install virtualenvwrapper or sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper see here for installation instructions)

then you can mkvirtualenv myprojectname and install django into the virtual environment ( pip install django ). then you will not face any problems such as this

Answer 2

So, there are a few things,

1. You should be looking for django-admin not django-admin.py .
2. Your paths have /usr/local/bin , what you're looking at is /home/<your user>/.local which is certainly not the right place.
3. As everybody suggested, use virtualenv for maintaining your projects and its dependencies cleanly and nicely.