If you install the "setuptools" package (http://goo.gl/UjFh), then all you have to do to install Django (or any other Python library) is this:
easy_install django And it will handle the rest. Just a suggestion. -- Joey "JoeLinux" Espinosa Software Developer http://about.me/joelinux On Nov 24, 2011 10:37 AM, "Tom Evans" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:00 AM, JJ Zolper <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am new to Django! I was able to download and install: Python 2.7.2 > > x86 64 on my Windows 7 64 bit machine. I think that is all that I will > > need to execute the command line? > > > > I installed Python to C:/Python27 as the program intended. > > > > I then downloaded: Django-1.3.1.tar.gz file and was try to figure > > where to go to next. I used the 7 zip to extract it to: > > Django-1.3.1.tar. But I wasn't sure the next steps. I opened the > > Python cmd prompt. I typed the command in: tar xzvf Django-*.tar.gz. > > But I got errors about the portion "xzvf" I feel that the directories > > are not set up correctly. Do I need to adjust my command for the > > directory because I already tried that. > > > > I would really appreciate a step through that would get me all set up > > with the baseline. I am interested to moving on from to the more in > > depth chapters. I tried hard to understand the input from the comments > > on the page but I was unable to find anything that gave me any sense > > of direction on how to place the Django files. > > > > Thanks! > > > > JJ > > > > PS. sorry this is available and I didn't see it in the new booklet. > > > > tar.gz is a gzipped (.gz) tape archive (.tar) file. 7zip should be > able to gunzip it and extract the files from the archive - it might > require two steps. > > The 'tar xzvf…' command is how one extracts a tar.gz under unix/linux > from the OS command line - not the python command line. As the docs > say, you can download and install bsdtar in windows, in which case the > OS command would be 'bsdtar zxvf …'. > > This is the second time this week someone has had issues extracting a > tgz on windows - any chance that django could be packaged up in a more > Windows friendly zip file format in addition to tgz? > > Cheers > > Tom > > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/install/#installing-an-official-release > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
