How to install Django in Ubuntu 11.10

Question

I am very new to Ubuntu OS and Python as well. I want to install Django. But i dont have easy_install and I tried below command to install pip

sudo apt-get install python-pip

I got an error as below

Unable to locate package python-pip

I tried below command as well

sudo apt-get install python-pip

and i got error as below

E: Package 'python-setuptools' has no installation candidate

I am very confused in installing django, How to successfully install django

Answer 1

First update repositories

sudo apt-get update

then try

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential python-setuptools

if nothing, you can install pip and setuptools packages manually. Download them from PyPI.

Answer 2

Install pip

To install or upgrade pip, securely download get-pip.py.

Then run the following (which may require administrator access):

sudo python get-pip.py

If setuptools (or distribute) is not already installed, get-pip.py will install setuptools for you.

To upgrade an existing setuptools (or distribute), run pip install -U setuptools

Upgrade pip

On Linux or OS X:

sudo pip install -U pip

Then you can download django using pip,

sudo pip install django

Answer 3

Install

First you need make sure you have Python install, here I take 2.7.6 as example. For how to install Python, you can go check this link:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/443048/python-2-7-6-on-ubuntu-12-04-how-to

Then you can start install Django and setup database as follow:

sudo apt-get install python-django
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb

You can find more configuration detail in this link

http://yuwenqing.org/?p=108

Also, for less pain in future develop, you should deploy your Django application in python virtualEnv, here are some detail of why you need virtualEnv.

http://yuwenqing.org/?p=126