> windows users have extracted your command will look like this: ....... > to execute the .tar file.
as tom mentioned, you have to use 7zip two times. the tar file is another archive (like .zip, .gz ) which you have to decompress and then you have the django directory and you can go on with the tutorial. On Nov 24, 2011, at 17:55 , JJ Zolper wrote: > JoeLinux, > > Oh interesting. It seems the 64 bit version is sort of unclear. Any > help there? > > Would I be able to install my Python is well with a smaller command? I > am back at ground zero because I had to adjust the Python version back > to 2.5 so Django would agree. > > I am interested just not sure how to work the 64 bit version. > > Thanks! > > JJ > > On Nov 24, 11:40 am, Joey Espinosa <jlouis.espin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If you install the "setuptools" package (http://goo.gl/UjFh), then all you >> have to do to install Django (or any other Python library) is this: >> >> easy_install django >> >> And it will handle the rest. Just a suggestion. >> >> -- >> Joey "JoeLinux" Espinosa >> Software Developerhttp://about.me/joelinux >> On Nov 24, 2011 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. > > -- > 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.
