diff options
| author | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2011-08-22 07:36:42 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2011-08-22 07:36:42 +0000 |
| commit | 5edf1aabc21f4c3bcd006b432e06cb3f0626ea28 (patch) | |
| tree | e6524af6aeb150b005121b532546d9b698ba88fa | |
| parent | f77666a4affeff87d180fade251e7423e2459c3a (diff) | |
Minor Debian/Ubuntu install instruction update.
This is all a bit of a mess (and fragile and mostly their own fault),
but this at least gives people a clue. Fixes #16287. Patch from
bpeschier.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16647 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/install.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/install.txt b/docs/topics/install.txt index 028fadebba..2006718596 100644 --- a/docs/topics/install.txt +++ b/docs/topics/install.txt @@ -170,6 +170,12 @@ This file should also be located in your ``site-packages`` directory. (Note that this should be run from a shell prompt, not a Python interactive prompt.) + Some Debian-based Linux distributions have separate ``site-packages`` + directories for user-installed packages, such as when installing Django + from a downloaded tarball. The command listed above will give you the + system's ``site-packages``, the user's directory can be found in + ``/usr/local/lib/`` instead of ``/usr/lib/``. + .. _install-django-code: Install the Django code |