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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 |