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authorGabriel Hurley <gabehr@gmail.com>2010-10-09 07:28:47 +0000
committerGabriel Hurley <gabehr@gmail.com>2010-10-09 07:28:47 +0000
commit19352c9cd9b3ae42ef945fa1de8399e38b2533e0 (patch)
treeebfe1882cfde9fc75a2944cd24a0555941f8ef39
parent8fd9f2eb9f2706dc774ffbdea6bd172c83741e68 (diff)
[1.2.X] Fixed #13279 -- Made the paths in the Unix install docs more explicit. Thanks to KathyManwaring for the report and stumbles for the patch.
Backport of [14062] from trunk. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.2.X@14063 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
-rw-r--r--docs/topics/install.txt10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/install.txt b/docs/topics/install.txt
index 3114517f62..cd3195c251 100644
--- a/docs/topics/install.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/install.txt
@@ -243,11 +243,12 @@ latest bug fixes and improvements, follow these instructions:
.. code-block:: bash
- ln -s `pwd`/django-trunk/django SITE-PACKAGES-DIR/django
+ ln -s WORKING-DIR/django-trunk/django SITE-PACKAGES-DIR/django
(In the above line, change ``SITE-PACKAGES-DIR`` to match the location of
your system's ``site-packages`` directory, as explained in the
- "Where are my ``site-packages`` stored?" section above.)
+ "Where are my ``site-packages`` stored?" section above. Change WORKING-DIR
+ to match the full path to your new ``djanjo-trunk`` directory.)
Alternatively, you can define your ``PYTHONPATH`` environment variable
so that it includes the ``django-trunk`` directory. This is perhaps the
@@ -272,7 +273,10 @@ latest bug fixes and improvements, follow these instructions:
.. code-block:: bash
- ln -s `pwd`/django-trunk/django/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin
+ ln -s WORKING-DIR/django-trunk/django/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin
+
+ (In the above line, change WORKING-DIR to match the full path to your new
+ ``djanjo-trunk`` directory.)
This simply lets you type ``django-admin.py`` from within any directory,
rather than having to qualify the command with the full path to the file.