Notes for myself so I can do this again someday… (UPDATE: I had to refresh the links at the bottom of this article to the latest version of Django. Good luck.)<\/p>\n
Let’s say we are working on a Django project called applesauce<\/strong>, for lack of a better name. We start by creating a directory for this project: We use pip<\/strong> to install python packages, so we must install it first: We use virtualenv<\/strong> to manage our python environment to make sure we don’t go too crazy. We can use pip to install it: virtualenv has this idea of using a directory to store its settings, so let’s make one for it, and use it as a new virtual environment: The –no-site-packages is the default now, so we don’t include it here (you could, but it’s deprecated). This helps keep things sane.<\/p>\n virtualenv creates a shell script for you to source that sets up the necessary environment variables. You will need to source this file every time you want to work on this project:<\/p>\n You should see that your shell prompt has changed, and now has “(applesauce-virtualenv)” at the front of the prompt. This lets you know that you have already “logged in” to your virtualenv.<\/p>\n Now, let’s install some of the packages required to work with Django. We start with the non-python system-wide packages and libraries: Then, make sure that you are in your virtual environment and install these python things using pip. Since we’re installing these packages into the virtualenv we don’t need to use sudo.<\/p>\n If you have any modules\/packages that you want to be able to use in your Django project, you can copy them into applesauce-virtualenv\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/<\/p>\n To verify that Django can be seen by Python, type python<\/strong> from your shell. Then at the Python prompt, try to import Django:<\/p>\n Now, you can start working with Django. You might want to start with the official tutorial, Writing your first Django app<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\ncd ~
\nmkdir applesauce
\ncd applesauce<\/code><\/p>\n
\nsudo apt-get install python-pip python-setuptools<\/code><\/p>\n
\nsudo pip install virtualenv<\/code><\/p>\n
\nmkdir applesauce-virtualenv
\nvirtualenv applesauce-virtualenv<\/code><\/p>\nsource applesauce-virtualenv\/bin\/activate<\/code><\/p>\n
\nsudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python2.7-dev libpng12-dev libfreetype6-dev build-essential python-dev<\/code><\/p>\npip install django django-debug-toolbar south httplib2 lxml<\/code><\/p>\n>>> import django
\n>>> print django.get_version()
\n1.4.1<\/code><\/p>\n