hmmm, OK I didn't know that. I'll try it . . . but I thought I already tried it and got a permission denied error
On Saturday, July 14, 2012 10:17:18 PM UTC-4, Ramiro Morales wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Doug S <webcoach...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello django people, > > I'm just installing my PostgreSQL backend for my django projects that I > > install in isolated virtualenv's > > I've followed what seem like easy installation instructions here: > > http://initd.org/psycopg/install/ > > I have installed python-dev, libpq-dev and also > postgresql-server-dev-9.1 > > I workon my virtualenv and use its pip installation to install psycopg2: > > (env) $ sudo pip install psycopg2 > > It appears to install successfully: > > Successfully installed psycopg2 > > but when I use yolk to list my virtualenv packages or look in my > > site-packages for my virtualenv or try to import psycopg2 I find that it > is > > not installed in the virtualenv like I thought it would be. > > I found I do have a psycopg2 installed in my system wide python > installation > > and I'm not sure if my attempt to install it locally actually installed > it > > globally or if the global installation was there to begin with from some > set > > up installation I did using someone else's code ( that I don't pretend > to > > understand ) > > > > Two questions: > > 1) why didn't it install like I expected? > > 2) do I want psycopg2 insalled in my local virtualenv's python > installation > > for django? or should it be in my global python installation? > > Maybe it is related to he fact you used sudo when running pip intall? > > Why are you doing that? After all, one of the advantages of using > a virtualenv is that you don't need o be a system admin > because you don`t want to/can't touch the globali system-wide > installation. > > -- > Ramiro Morales > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/QIPSYQTJTeMJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
