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@ -129,14 +129,14 @@ Installing an official release
2. Untar the downloaded file (e.g. ``tar xzvf Django-NNN.tar.gz``,
where ``NNN`` is the version number of the latest release).
If you are a Windows user, you can download the command-line tool
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_.
3. Change into the directory created in step 2 (e.g. ``cd Django-NNN``).
4. If you are using Linux, Mac OSX or some other flavour of Unix, enter
the command``sudo python setup.py install`` at the shell prompt.
If you are using Windows, start up a command shell with administrator
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 up a command shell with administrator
privileges and run the command ``setup.py install``.
These commands will install Django in your Python installation's
@ -153,17 +153,16 @@ If you'd like to be able to update your Django code occasionally with the
latest bug fixes and improvements, follow these instructions:
1. Make sure that you have Subversion_ installed, and that you can run its
commands from a shell. (Enter ``svn help`` at a shell prompt to test
commands from a shell. (Enter ``svn help`` at a shell prompt to test
this.)
2. Check out Django's main development branch (the 'trunk') like so::
svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/ django-trunk
3. Next, you need to make sure that the Python interpreter can load Django's
code. There are various ways of accomplishing this. One of the most
convenient, on Linux, Mac OSX or other Unix-like systems, is to use a
symbolic link::
3. Next, make sure that the Python interpreter can load Django's code. There
are various ways of accomplishing this. One of the most convenient, on
Linux, Mac OSX or other Unix-like systems, is to use a symbolic link::
ln -s `pwd`/django-trunk/django SITE-PACKAGES-DIR/django
@ -174,15 +173,20 @@ latest bug fixes and improvements, follow these instructions:
Alternatively, you can define your ``PYTHONPATH`` environment variable
so that it includes the ``django`` subdirectory of ``django-trunk``.
This is perhaps the most convenient solution on Windows systems, which
don't support symbolic links. (Environment variables can be defined on
don't support symbolic links. (Environment variables can be defined on
Windows systems `from the Control Panel`_.)
.. admonition:: What about Apache and mod_python?
If you are using Apache and mod_python rather than Django's
development server, then instead of defining the ``PYTHONPATH``
shell environment variable, you will need to specify the
``PythonPath`` directive in your Apache configuration file.
If you take the approach of setting ``PYTHONPATH``, you'll need to
remember to do the same thing in your Apache configuration once you
deploy your production site. Do this by setting ``PythonPath`` in your
Apache configuration file.
More information about deployment is available, of course, in our
`How to use Django with mod_python`_ documentation.
.. _How to use Django with mod_python: ../modpython/
4. Copy the file ``django-trunk/django/bin/django-admin.py`` to somewhere on
your system path, such as ``/usr/local/bin`` (Unix) or ``C:\Python24\Scripts``