Django: Web Development with Python

Installing Django

We will then install the framework on which we will be working. The following sections describe how we can install Django on different operating systems.

Installing Django for Windows

To install Django with PIP, you have to open a command prompt and go to the Scripts directory that you can find in the Python folder. You can install Django with the following command:

C:\Python33\Scripts\pip.exe install django=="X.X"

PIP will download and install the Django packages in the site-packages repository of Python.

Installing Django for Linux

To facilitate the PIP utilization that we have just installed, we have to look for the version installed on the system and define an alias to refer to the PIP version installed. Do not forget to execute ...