How to upgrade sqlite 3.8.2 to >= 3.8.3

Question

In a virtual Env with Python 3.7.2, I am trying to run django\'s python manage.py startap myapp and I get this error:

raise ImproperlyConfigured         


        

Answer 1

I've just been through this. I had to install a separate newer version of SQLite, from

https://www.sqlite.org/download.html

That is in /usr/local/bin. Then I had to recompile Python, telling it to look there:

sudo LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib ./configure --enable-optimizations
sudo LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib make altinstall

To check which version of SQLite Python is using:

$ python
Python 3.7.3 (default, Apr 12 2019, 16:23:13) 
>>> import sqlite3
>>> sqlite3.sqlite_version
'3.27.2'