Command not found: django-admin.py

Question

I am a complete beginner to Python/Django, but I want to dive right in and start experimenting. Thus I was following this guide on installing Python/Django http://devcenter.

Answer 1

I have used follwong command to install (/usr/local/bin) MAC OS

pip install django

django-admin startproject mysite

Answer 2

For me this one worked

python3 -m django startproject mysite

Then it doesn't tell you that it created file you must check by yourself in your home

hardrive/user/urhome

Answer 3

I tried as the method, it worked.

pip uninstall django
sudo pip install django
django-admin startproject example

It worked well.

Answer 4

I was facing the same issue.

The issue resolved after I upgraded the django version using

pip install --upgrade django

Then run

django-admin startproject mysite

Hope this helps!

Answer 5

Make sure you properly did the source bin/activate command. If you skip that, or do it in a different terminal window, or close the window then re-open it, you won't be in the virtualenv and you won't have access to the django-admin.py command in your environment.

Answer 6

Get site-package path with Python:

import site; site.getsitepackages()

And run django-admin.py directly:

python (your-site-package-addresss)/django/bin/django-admin.py startproject hellodjango

On Mac: If this works you can go and add django-admin.py to your path using symlink:

sudo ln -s (your-site-package-addresss)/django/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin/django-admin

(could be that you have to reopen terminal or reinstall django to get the symlink working)