Commit 085c03e0 authored by Aymeric Augustin's avatar Aymeric Augustin
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Updated installation instructions. 

Django 1.5 requires Python 2.6 or 2.7, and setup.py install over a
previous installation doesn't work.
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INSTALL

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Thanks for downloading Django.



To install it, make sure you have Python 2.5 or greater installed. Then run

To install it, make sure you have Python 2.6 or greater installed. Then run

this command from the command prompt:



    python setup.py install



If you're upgrading from a previous version, you need to remove it first.



AS AN ALTERNATIVE, you can just copy the entire "django" directory to Python's

site-packages directory, which is located wherever your Python installation

lives. Some places you might check are:



    /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.7)

    /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.6)

    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.5)

    C:\\PYTHON\site-packages         (Windows)



For more detailed instructions, see docs/intro/install.txt.