Installing Django manually

1. Download the latest release from the Django Project download page (https://www.djangoproject.com/download/).

2. Untar the downloaded file (for example, tar xzvf Django-X.Y.tar.gz, where X.Y is the version number of the latest release). If you're using Windows, you can download the command-line tool bsdtar to do this, or you can use a GUI-based tool such as 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/).

3. Change into the directory created in step 2 (for example, cd Django-X.Y).

4. If you're using Linux, Mac OS X or some other flavor of Unix, enter the command sudo python setup.py install at the shell prompt. If you're using Windows, start a command shell with administrator privileges and run the command python setup.py install. This will install Django in your Python installation's site-packages directory.

Note

Removing an old version

If you use this installation technique, it is particularly important that you remove any existing installations of Django first (see below). Otherwise, you can...