On Aug 6, 9:48 am, Brett Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 06:07:16AM -0700, john wrote: > > > On Aug 5, 10:46 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 8/5/07, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > thks - the tutorial shows the .py extension and that was giving the > > > > error. > > > > The file's name is 'django-admin.py', not 'django-admin', and the > > > tutorial is correct; the problem was that you did not have the > > > executable bit set on django-admin.py, and so you did not have > > > permission to execute that file from the command line. > > > Okay, but who is the Ubuntu package manager contact for django? - > > how can we get the packaging straightened out so new people to django > > don't face the same problem I did. As I mentioned before, it seems > > the packaging can be improved. > > Err, it's not an "official" ubuntu package, it's a compile of the debian > package.... you can find that with a simple "apt-cache show > python-django". Bugs, apparently, should be mailed to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", I'm in the "Original-Maintainer" field. > > The packaging just uses python support - there's nothing clever going on > there - the only thing we (me and raphael, my sponsor for that package) > do is rename django-admin.py to django-admin and drop it in /usr/bin for > convienience. (Oh, and change /usr/bin/env python -> /usr/bin/python, > modify the bash completion to deal with django-admin. > > If you've got any suggestions for the packaging, I'm willing to listen!
just as suggestions: 1) the /django/bin/.... files are in 3 locations (perhaps because I loaded from respository and from tarball) - the 3 locations are: a) /usr/lib//python2.5/site-packages/ .... b) /usr/lib/python-django/...... (the folder is symlinked but all the files are still underneath) c) /usr/share/python-support/..... if there's a good reason for them to be in all 3 places fine, just is confusing 2) whether ".py" or not to be ".py" doesn't really matter - just an explanation on the tutorial for debian/ubuntu users will help avoid the constant frustration I had trying to get it to run (and to avoid future support msgs on the same issue). thks for the support - I am now exploring Django and seeing if it can convert me from rails. john --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---