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
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to