On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Tim Bowden <tim.bow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When installing django from an official release tarball onto Ubuntu > 10.04 python 2.6, (python setup.py install) it installs to > /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ rather than > /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages (as reported by python -c "from > distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"). > > Is this expected behaviour? If so, the install instructions and > tutorial will need to be updated. How should django best be imported > into a running python interpreter in this case? import django > returns: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > ImportError: No module named django > > I solved the problem by doing python setup.py build then manually > copying build/django into /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages, but > that is not a very user friendly procedure. > > Is this an Ubuntu/python 2.6 specific issue? Should the install > instructions be updated or is this a bug in the packaging? > > On that system, I believe it is expected behavior that Django gets installed in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages when installed via setup.py. Per the Debian packaging doc ( http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-python.html), this is "[a] special directory [that] is dedicated to public Python modules installed by the local administrator, /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages for python2.6 and later". What is unexpected in your case is that this directory is not in the system default sys.path. It is in sys.path on my Ubuntu 10.04 box (as is the other directory, which is called "the system Python modules directory" in that packaging doc): Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip-0.8.1-py2.6.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages'] >>> '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages' in sys.path True >>> '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages' in sys.path True >>> Karen -- http://tracey.org/kmt/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
