From 5edf1aabc21f4c3bcd006b432e06cb3f0626ea28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Malcolm Tredinnick Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:36:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Minor Debian/Ubuntu install instruction update. This is all a bit of a mess (and fragile and mostly their own fault), but this at least gives people a clue. Fixes #16287. Patch from bpeschier. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16647 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/topics/install.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/topics/install.txt b/docs/topics/install.txt index 028fadebba..2006718596 100644 --- a/docs/topics/install.txt +++ b/docs/topics/install.txt @@ -170,6 +170,12 @@ This file should also be located in your ``site-packages`` directory. (Note that this should be run from a shell prompt, not a Python interactive prompt.) + Some Debian-based Linux distributions have separate ``site-packages`` + directories for user-installed packages, such as when installing Django + from a downloaded tarball. The command listed above will give you the + system's ``site-packages``, the user's directory can be found in + ``/usr/local/lib/`` instead of ``/usr/lib/``. + .. _install-django-code: Install the Django code