Author: mtredinnick
Date: 2011-08-22 00:36:42 -0700 (Mon, 22 Aug 2011)
New Revision: 16647

Modified:
   django/trunk/docs/topics/install.txt
Log:
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.

Modified: django/trunk/docs/topics/install.txt
===================================================================
--- django/trunk/docs/topics/install.txt        2011-08-22 06:35:52 UTC (rev 
16646)
+++ django/trunk/docs/topics/install.txt        2011-08-22 07:36:42 UTC (rev 
16647)
@@ -170,6 +170,12 @@
     (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

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