Django installation first time

Question

I started learning DJango for the first time. I have some amount of basic knowledge of python but DJango is first for me. I started with the documentation page of django, bu

Answer 1

The most flexbile way, IMO, of installing w/o old setuptools, is

1. download virtualenv
   $ curl -O http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.7.1.2.tar.gz
2. extract
   tar xzf virtualenv-1.7.1.2.tar.gz
3. use the version of Python you want to run Django to install virtualenv, for example
   $ python2.7 virtualenv-1.7.1.2/virtualenv.py --distribute ~/env
4. enter env in which the pip has been already installed
   $ source ~/env/bin/activate
5. install packages in current env instead of polluting global space or needing sudo
   pip install Django
   Then Django will be installed to path like ~/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django.
6. Or you could
   pip install -e svn+http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk
   to install latest trunk code of Django, and the source will be in ~/env/src/django/django. Then you are free to read the source or modify it. Also, you could have full documents by make html in ~/env/src/django/docs

Things installed by the above method are totally local, you don't need to type sudo or take the risk of messing up paths such as /usr/local/lib, even more, you could then be able to install multiple versions of Django or Python w/o affect each other!

Furthermore, you could try virtualenvwrapper.