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| author | Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com> | 2006-07-28 02:07:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com> | 2006-07-28 02:07:43 +0000 |
| commit | e3bb4011817d8d0a39a96a503eb455436d86d22e (patch) | |
| tree | d2f29f25fef9891df0b16271391999db9dba9aa3 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 9345c85e973ab61e3fa4f8ea211693a9fca9c1af (diff) | |
| download | django-e3bb4011817d8d0a39a96a503eb455436d86d22e.tar.gz | |
Added section to INSTALL about an alternative install method that avoids using an Internet connection
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@3469 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -1,7 +1,22 @@ Thanks for downloading Django. -To install it, make sure you have Python 2.3 or greater installed. Then run this command: +To install it, make sure you have Python 2.3 or greater installed. Then run +this command from the command prompt: -python setup.py install + python setup.py install + +Note this requires a working Internet connection if you don't already have the +Python utility "setuptools" installed. + +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/python2.4/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.4) + /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.3) + C:\\PYTHON\site-packages (Windows) + +This second solution does not require a working Internet connection; it +bypasses "setuptools" entirely. For more detailed instructions, see docs/install.txt. |