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Updated installation instructions.
Django 1.5 requires Python 2.6 or 2.7, and setup.py install over a previous installation doesn't work.
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Thanks for downloading Django.
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To install it, make sure you have Python 2.5 or greater installed. Then run
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To install it, make sure you have Python 2.6 or greater installed. Then run
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this command from the command prompt:
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python setup.py install
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If you're upgrading from a previous version, you need to remove it first.
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AS AN ALTERNATIVE, you can just copy the entire "django" directory to Python's
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site-packages directory, which is located wherever your Python installation
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lives. Some places you might check are:
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/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.7)
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/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.6)
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/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.5)
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C:\\PYTHON\site-packages (Windows)
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For more detailed instructions, see docs/intro/install.txt.

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