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authorJon Dufresne <jon.dufresne@gmail.com>2019-11-07 15:51:02 +0100
committerMariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>2019-11-08 21:16:52 +0100
commitbca2ffd3c267fecbcfb683a853f350959afee553 (patch)
tree8e85018607703b68c768e0cce78b215276a3ff6e
parent48631a1afd4d1b9ed999e99427d8e55a6a2e997e (diff)
[3.0.x] Refs #30948 -- Updated install instructions to use pip instead of setup.py.
Co-authored-by: Nick Pope <nick.pope@flightdataservices.com> Backport of eee4da3b5748370a5c562bc63d2cae61ea85b16c from master
-rw-r--r--INSTALL4
-rw-r--r--docs/faq/troubleshooting.txt6
-rw-r--r--docs/ref/django-admin.txt4
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index eb9cf6eaf2..7c10946c87 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ Thanks for downloading Django.
To install it, make sure you have Python 3.6 or greater installed. Then run
this command from the command prompt:
- python setup.py install
-
-If you're upgrading from a previous version, you need to remove it first.
+ python -m pip install .
For more detailed instructions, see docs/intro/install.txt.
diff --git a/docs/faq/troubleshooting.txt b/docs/faq/troubleshooting.txt
index ba44aa83ef..f90d0e8e6e 100644
--- a/docs/faq/troubleshooting.txt
+++ b/docs/faq/troubleshooting.txt
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ Problems running ``django-admin``
-----------------------------------
:doc:`django-admin </ref/django-admin>` should be on your system path if you
-installed Django via ``python setup.py``. If it's not on your path, you can
-find it in ``site-packages/django/bin``, where ``site-packages`` is a directory
-within your Python installation. Consider symlinking to :doc:`django-admin
+installed Django via ``pip``. If it's not on your path, you can find it in
+``site-packages/django/bin``, where ``site-packages`` is a directory within
+your Python installation. Consider symlinking to :doc:`django-admin
</ref/django-admin>` from some place on your path, such as
:file:`/usr/local/bin`.
diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index 7675dbc0d9..fbea71e6e6 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ does the same thing as ``django-admin`` but also sets the
project's ``settings.py`` file.
The ``django-admin`` script should be on your system path if you installed
-Django via its ``setup.py`` utility. If it's not on your path, you can find it
-in ``site-packages/django/bin`` within your Python installation. Consider
+Django via ``pip``. If it's not on your path, you can find it in
+``site-packages/django/bin`` within your Python installation. Consider
symlinking it from some place on your path, such as ``/usr/local/bin``.
For Windows users, who do not have symlinking functionality available, you can