django-admin.py is a python script that should be ran at the command line:
$ django-admin startproject myproject ..should work fine. On Aug 5, 12:43 pm, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 5, 6:43 am, "Jason Ribeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The 'python-django' package in ubuntu's universe "just works" for me > > and 0.96 is in the feisty-backports repository. Why not try that? > > > Jason > > > On 8/5/07, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 8/5/07, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I created a symlink at /usr/local/bin to the django django-admin.py > > > > file under python2.5. If I go to my home directory and try to create > > > > a new project I get a syntax error pointing at the end of > > > > startproject. If I try " >>> /usr/lib/....... django-admin.py > > > > startproject myproject" I get a permission denied error. Something > > > > seems wrong here. Any ideas ? > > > > Go to the directory where django-admin.py is located, and do the > > > following: > > > > sudo chmod +x django-admin.py > > > > Then try it again. Or, alternatively, use > > > > python /path/to/django/bin/django-admin.py startproject someprojectname > > > > to bypass the need for the executable bit. > > Okay, I attached the backports repository and reinstalled both > python2.5 and django - again running version it shows okay. But it > appears the Ubuntu packaging is messed up - first there is a /usr/lib/ > python-django/bin folder that links to /usr/lib/python2.5/site- > packages/django/bin okay but there are duplicate files listed under > in each /bin folder and there are no execute permissions for the /bin > programs in the python2.5 path. Duplicate files with differing > permissions ? > > So I still get a syntax error trying to run startproject, pointing > either at the end of startproject or the end of the project name > (depending whether I run it at command line or under python). > > I have seen other messages with the similar problem on google search > without answers - something is apparently wrong and needs to be > fixed. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
