django-admin.py maybe not in system path after setup.py installation on OS X

[paul@…]

Mac OS X 10.4.10 (Intel), Python 2.3.5 (#1, Aug 19 2006, 21:31:42)

Steps taken:

1. Download Django 0.96 (​http://www.djangoproject.com/download/0.96/tarball/) into /Users/pauldwaite/Desktop/

2. Install Django, i.e. run these commands:

   cd ~/Desktop
   tar xzvf Django-0.96.tar.gz
   cd Django-0.96
   sudo python setup.py install
   

3. Change into my home directory, and attempt to create a Django project:

   cd ../../
   django-admin.py startproject mysite
   

Result:

-bash: django-admin.py: command not found

Adding /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/django/bin/ to my path (I do it in my .profile file) fixes the problem.

[anonymous]

I deleted Django, and installed Python 2.5.1 using the Mac OS X installer provided by python.org. This also fixes the problem.

[Simon G. <dev@…>]

Hmm.. is anyone else having the same issue? I've had no problems with a very similar setup.

[Clay McClure]

I have just run into this using Python 2.6 from MacPorts. setup.py installs django to:

/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py

django-admin.py is also not set executable during the install. Having to symlink and chmod django-admin.py after installing django is sort of a bummer.

[Alex Gaynor]

If an installer doesn't install Django correctly we can't be reponsible for that, setup.py does the correct thing. If an installer has a bug it should be documented on the wiki distributions wikipage: ​http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Distributions

[rhand]

Had the same problem with Snow Leopard 10.6.2. I installed Django using MacPorts. I added the PATH to ~/.Profile: export PATH=/opt/local/bin:opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/bin:$PATH . Now django-admin.py works. Hope this will help others.