I also recently started using djangoon ubuntu and ran into no problems. Try and get django from the repositories:
1. apt-cache search python-django you will see python-django files and other related files you might like 2. sudo apt-get install python-django <all other files u like, spaces in between> Regards Damola ________________________________ From: danielvanvane <danielvanv...@web.de> To: Django users <django-users@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 5:08:56 PM Subject: Installation Problem cant extract tar.gz file Hello, I want to start with Django, but i got serval problem during the installation: First I installed Python 2.7 and MySQL then i downloaded django1.3 (and django 1.25) Now i clicked on the django1.3 .tar.gz and i got this problem(also on other versions): Archivmanager says: tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors so I cant install it otherwise extract I use Ubuntu 11.4 on a virtual machine under windows7 via virtual box "oracle VM" Note: I'am a truely win7 user, but i need to learn django on ubuntu (: I hope that u can help me -sorry for bad english (: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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.