Programs in the package do not work as documented

[Paul Huygen]

The documentation (file:///usr/share/doc/python-django-doc/html/intro/tutorial01.html) states that you can create a new Django project with the command:

django-admin startproject mysite

However, when you do that, you get the message that the command does not exist. The documentation says, that when you get that message, you should make a symbolic link from the path to django-admin.py file to a file in a directory in your path. It is confusing which django-admin.py to choose, because python-django supplies [/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py], [/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/bin/django-admin.pyc] and [/usr/local/bin/django-admin.py].

If you make a link from one of the three files to e.g. /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py, it turns out that you should make the file executable before runnking it.

When you finally run the command django-admin startproject mysite, you get the error message

"Unknown command: 'startproject'".

Probably you ought to give the command:

django-admin startapp mysite.

This is very confusing for a beginner. Therefore I suggest that in package python-django django-admin.py would be executable and in the path of users and that the documentation suggests the right command to set up a new site.

Thanks for your help.

Paul Huygen

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: python-django 1.3.1-4ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic 3.2.30
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 5 08:22:56 2012
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: python-django
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-01 (156 days ago)

[James Page (james-page)]

Hi Paul

I'm not able to reproduce this issue on 12.04; using django-admin from the python-django package works just fine for me. Can you check that you don't have an out-of-distro version kicking around on your system.

Thanks

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