South: Unknown command 'migrate'

Question

I\'m getting a merciless

$ python manage.py migrate
Unknown command: \'migrate\'
Type \'manage.py help\' for usage.

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Answer 1

I had this but it turned out to be an error in my settings.py which got shown up when I tried runserver instead. Fixed the error, and the command came back. Basically none of the management commands for any of the apps were there, so my INSTALLED_APPS must have been overwritten or never written in the first place. In my case, the import of the settings file was failing silently.