Comments on: How To: Install Django on OS X (Tiger 10.4)

By: Mike Watts

Mike Watts — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:06:12 +0000

I know this is an old article, but it’s still very helpful – thank you.

One thing though:
One the line reading [ln -s /users/[USERNAME]/django_src/django/ /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework]

should read [ln -s /users/[USERNAME]/django_src/django/ /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django]

for some reason it cuts off the rest of the text – hope this helps other people having the error
Traceback (most recent call last): File “”, line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named django

By: \')/*

\')/* — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:56:42 +0000

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By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:20:45 +0000

Thanks for the tutorual, it’s the best one I’ve found, but I keep having the same problem every time i try to install Django. When i try >>> import django i get the message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named django

I’ve made sure to include my used name, and am using python 2.4.3 I’ve restarted the tutorial several time and always get the same problem.

Any help would be great.
Aaron

By: eric

eric — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:03:20 +0000

sweeeeeet!
great tutorial…and thanks kai for your comment, i ran into the same thing changing the bash_profile…

By: Kai

Kai — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:27:13 +0000

One things that has bitten me several times when configuring Django is making sure your system has picked up the changes to your path.

After editing your ~/.bash_profile, you should then execute the file to insure the changes are picked up with the following command:

. ~/.bash_profile

I’ve found that simply closing or opening a new terminal window isn’t enough. Anyhow, hope that helps.

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By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:34:58 +0000

Thanks! Very well done.

By: Ian Smith

Ian Smith — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:50:20 +0000

Hmmm…. I finished the tutorial almost entirely, up to the point of:

django-admin.py startproject PROJECTNAME

Thanks to Pascal I finally got the $PATH to be correct when using echo $PATH, but that command doesn’t work. Instead I navigated the entire path to the file, although I think you should go a little bit more in depth with this. As well as using MySQLdb 1.2.2 with Python 2.5, because I spent about an hour trying to figure out how to compile it Thanks for this tutorial though, without it I never could have figured any of this out.

By: Paul S

Paul S — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:36:49 +0000

This is brilliant, many thanks. I have two further suggestions:

1. The precompiled mysqldb pkg (v.1.2.1) linked ab. looks for python 2.4.x and won’t install if you’re running Python 2.5. You will either need to uninstall python 2.5, install python 2.4 alongside, or compile mysqldb 1.2.1 from scratch. If you haven’t upgraded to python 2.5, the links above work fine.

2. Kreek: you may want to un-highlight the first code sample (marked “do not enter this”) in step 6. Someone in a hurry (*mumblemumble*me*mumblemumble*) might slap that code in without reading closely. It doesn’t do any harm AFAICS but had to unlink the symlink.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:36:47 +0000

Incredibly helpful. Not even 20 minutes. Thanks alot. Normally I like digging into figuring everything out when setting up a development environment but not today, and your tutorial saved the day. Thanks again.

Craig