Thanks Malcom for clarifying that. I suspected there was some sort of bug so I installed the subversion instead of the official release and I now have everything up and running. Also, I am now using a Postgre database and I'm very impressed so far. Thanks to everone who replied.
On Dec 22, 4:32 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 12:55 -0800, Trev wrote: > > Hi, This should take 2 seconds for an experience Django user. > > I'm trying to install Django on windows XP. I've installed python 2.5 > > and MySQL with MySQLdb as the interface. > > However when I try installing django from DOS I get this error > > > C:\Django-0.96.1>setup.py install > > running install > > running build > > running build_py > > error: package directory '\django' does not exist > > > There is actually a django subdirectory in Django-0.96.1 so I can't > > figure it out. > > Please Help! > > There was a bug in setup.py in Django 0.96 that meant it wouldn't work > on Windows. One solution is to copy setup.py from a subversion checkout > and use that -- it's just a single self-contained file and was fixed a > little after 0.96 was released. > > Regards, > Malcolm > > -- > No one is listening until you make a mistake.http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---