From 0d2b5e33cd7ca3a3f806321aa5d5893901d49352 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Holovaty Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:21:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added docs/install.txt git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@71 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/install.txt | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/install.txt diff --git a/docs/install.txt b/docs/install.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ef8aa1c00bc --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/install.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +===================== +How to install Django +===================== + +Installation instructions are slightly different depending on whether you're +using the latest official version or the latest development version. + +It's easy either way. + +Installing the official version +=============================== + +1. Download the tarball of the latest official version from our ``download page``_. +2. ``cd django-1.0.0.tar.gz`` +3. ``python setup.py install`` + +Installing the development version +================================== + +1. Make sure you have ``Subversion``_ installed. +2. ``svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/ django_src`` +3. Symlink ``django_src/django`` so that ``django`` is within your Python + ``site-packages`` directory: + ``ln -s django_src/django /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django`` + Change ``python2.3`` to match your current Python version. + +When you want to update your code, just run the command ``svn update`` from +within the ``django_src`` directory. + +.. _`Subversion`: http://subversion.tigris.org/