Problem in tutorial on how to start a project - command does not work on Ubuntu

[islands]

django-admin.py does not work in Ubuntu. Correct is just django-admin. This came up with going through the getting started tutorial........I am evaluating django as an alternative to php frameworks... quality/quantity of documentation is a large differentiating factor in productivity.

Thanks for your time,
islands

[Russell Keith-Magee]

I'd like to state for the record that this is 100% a problem of Ubuntu's making. We ship django-admin.py. That is what we have *always* called that script. *Our* documentation is completely correct.

Ubuntu has taken it on itself to rename the script. The fact that we need to modify our documentation to accommodate the packaging tweaks introduced by a third party bugs me. The fact that that third party doesn't provide their own edited version of the documentation, and doesn't lobby to have those tweaks pushed upstream (even as a documentation fix) *really* annoys me.

Unfortunately, due to the popularity of Ubuntu, this is something that we need to address. Otherwise we get tarred because of the mistakes of others.

[Dougal Matthews]

I have added a note to the tutorial that indicates the name change.

[Gabriel Hurley]

(In [14108]) Fixed #13927 -- Advises that the Ubuntu package manager drops the .py extension from django-admin.py. Thanks to islands for the report and d0ugal for the patch.