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

The following guide in official site https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/InstallationPitfalls

First, you should find location of django-admin.py by

which django-admin.py

Example: in my case

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py

You use sudo ln -s to relocate django-admin-py to /usr/local/bin

sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py

after that change permission of the django-admin to be executable sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py

Now you can use django-admin.py startproject mysite to create your django project

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If you want to change django-admin.py to django-admin to look like more compact you can use sudo mv /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin/django-admin

Hope this help for you !

Answer 2

To solve this problem, you need:

1. Find the main folder of Django, and find the django-admin.py file

   Typically, the file is in <YOUR_DJANGO_FOLDER>/bin/django-admin.py

2. Create a link for this file

   ln -s /bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin/django-admin

3. Type django-admin in your command to check if it works

Answer 3

if you install django by pip

• ensure you have installed django:

pip list or pip freeze

if there is django then

• get location of django:

pip show django

if location is '/Users/xxxxx/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages' then

• relocate django-admin-py to /usr/local/bin:

ln -s /Users/xxxxx/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py

Answer 4

I'm running macOS and I'm using pyenv instead of virtualenv. I'm not sure if they behave similarly, but I was having the same problem in which django-admin.py was not found.

After a while I've noticed that I had a warning after installing django: pyenv: cannot rehash: /Users/msvolenski/.pyenv/shims/.pyenv-shim exists

Once I deleted this file and ran pyenv rehash it all started working perfectly.

Hope this helps!

Answer 5

When that didn't work for me, I tried python -m django startproject mysite and it worked.

Answer 6

Actually, if you use Ubuntu, it's just django-admin not django-admin.py.

Resides in /usr/bin
Probably the same thing on Mac.
You're using a Windows tutorial.

It may also tell you

python manage.py runserver

and that is actually

python ./manage.py runserver