Whilst Django is checking out of SVN I’ll give you a quick checklist to get it up and running on OSX.
- Install MySQL
- Install darwinports
$ sudo port install subversion$ sudo port install python24- Add
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/binto your path (before $PATH so as to use Python 2.4) - Download and extract mysql-python bindings
- Change dir into the extracted mysql-python
$ python setup.py build$ sudo python setup.py install$ mkdir ~/django$ svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/ ~/django/django_src- Add
$HOME/django/django_src/django/binto your path - Add
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$HOME/django/django_src:$HOME/django/django_projectsto your .profile
And there you have it:
$ django-admin.py
usage: django-admin.py action [options]
actions:
adminindex [appname ...]
Prints the admin-index template snippet for the given app name(s).
...
Instead of placing it in ~/django you could have put it somewhere nicer, like /usr/local/django, but I thought I’d keep it consistent with Jeff Croft’s article on setting up DJango on dreamhost.
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Excellent, concise instructions, thought i would add a wee bit of clarity that might help:
Step 5: If using default bash shell the actual code should be:
echo 'PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
then:
source .bash_profile
Step 12:
echo 'PATH=$PATH:$HOME/django/django_src/django/bin' >> ~/.bash_profile
then, again:
source .bash_profile
Step 13:
echo 'export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$HOME/django/django_src:$HOME/django/django_projects' >> ~/.profile
finally:
source .profileCheers TT!
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Thanks Allan! Glad you found it useful.
Apologies for the line breaks…
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Can you please explain the difference between .profile and .bash_profile ?
Why is some stuff going in one and other stuff in the other?
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Most (all?) shells have their own preferred config file, and then fall back on
.profile. If it’s BASH specific it should probably go into.bash_profile. I’m usually too lazy to pay much attention…Why Allan’s last step suggests using
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That was sweet Tim!
cheers, very much
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That my newbie mistake, you’re quite right – the final step should have been consistant with the rest and read .bash_profile’ not ‘.profile’. But as Tim’s instructions indicate you can use .profile all the way through, I just put up what worked for me!
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how to make this step in osx?
Add $HOME/django/django_src/django/bin to your path
I don’t know where is the “path” thing..
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baldo: See the first comment by Allan above.
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Just wondering. Since you are already installing Darwinports, why can’t you use that to install Django? Does it not work?
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Screw MacPorts, just…
sudo easy_install http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/
Nothing wrong with the Python that comes in Leopard. You will need setuptools at least for this.
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Also no need to install Subversion from MacPorts… comes pre-installed.