Trying to add Django Countries to Django

Question

I am a newbie to django and I am trying to install django countries and am haveing issues. I Installed from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-countries/1.0.1. When I installe

Answer 1

You can install django countries with this command:

sudo pip install django-countries

Then your INSTALLED_APPS should be updated like this:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django_admin_bootstrapped.bootstrap3',
    ...
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    ...
    'django_countries',
)

(note: no django. prefix, countries spelt correctly, underscore not dash)

BTW I found this command useful when verifying package names:

pip list

Answer 2

If this version was downloaded from google, it looks like the app is in a subfolder called countries. Put this folder in your python dist-packages folder so the path is /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/countries and then add countries to the list of installed apps. See this doc for more details http://code.google.com/p/django-countries/source/browse/trunk/INSTALL.txt

Answer 3

Why did you put it into django.contrib? That's for apps that are supplied with Django.

Install it properly, into its own directory. Then, fix the spelling error you have made in INSTALLED_APPS: countries, not counties.