Tom, 7zip works great. I am able to unzip the .tgz file and I have my .tar file. Now it is on to installation of it.
Okay I have worked with UNIX before so I have some knowledge. I am studying to be a Computer Engineer at VT and have had some experience. My intuition tells me that if I even wanted to work from the command line I would need to adjust the: tar xzvf in windows because I would have already unzipped it. As for the documentation would bsdtar extract and execute? I have no issues extracting I just feel that with little knowledge of adjusting the command line calls properly I am not able to set this up properly in windows. This has surely helped though! I am not sure where you are heading with this part. I am able to extract it just fine with 7zip. The issue is the next step. I feel there needs to be some information on the django site that says okay windows users have extracted your command will look like this: ....... to execute the .tar file. Not to mention the cd or current directory command can be used to change your location to properly aligned your current directory as well as placing the extracted .tar file in this location you move to in the command prompt. As for formatting purporses I am the most familiar with .zip files they are extremely simple to work with, especially in a windows environment. I do have experience with .tar however it DID NOT click that this was a UNIX kernel command. As I am in windows and just assumed that was for me. :/ Cheers JJ On Nov 24, 10:37 am, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:00 AM, JJ Zolper <jzth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > I am new to Django! I was able to download and install: Python 2.7.2 > > x86 64 on my Windows 7 64 bit machine. I think that is all that I will > > need to execute the command line? > > > I installed Python to C:/Python27 as the program intended. > > > I then downloaded: Django-1.3.1.tar.gz file and was try to figure > > where to go to next. I used the 7 zip to extract it to: > > Django-1.3.1.tar. But I wasn't sure the next steps. I opened the > > Python cmd prompt. I typed the command in: tar xzvf Django-*.tar.gz. > > But I got errors about the portion "xzvf" I feel that the directories > > are not set up correctly. Do I need to adjust my command for the > > directory because I already tried that. > > > I would really appreciate a step through that would get me all set up > > with the baseline. I am interested to moving on from to the more in > > depth chapters. I tried hard to understand the input from the comments > > on the page but I was unable to find anything that gave me any sense > > of direction on how to place the Django files. > > > Thanks! > > > JJ > > > PS. sorry this is available and I didn't see it in the new booklet. > > tar.gz is a gzipped (.gz) tape archive (.tar) file. 7zip should be > able to gunzip it and extract the files from the archive - it might > require two steps. > > The 'tar xzvf…' command is how one extracts a tar.gz under unix/linux > from the OS command line - not the python command line. As the docs > say, you can download and install bsdtar in windows, in which case the > OS command would be 'bsdtar zxvf …'. > > This is the second time this week someone has had issues extracting a > tgz on windows - any chance that django could be packaged up in a more > Windows friendly zip file format in addition to tgz? > > Cheers > > Tom > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/install/#installing-an-o... -- 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.
