On 29 November 2010 21:15, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
Problem solved. Permissions issue. The version of ubuntu I'm using is a minimalist bastardised version pre-installed on a VPS. I'm installing as root and it isn't giving appropriate permissions on the django directory. Sorry for the noise. Tim Bowden -- 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.
