bash claims I need to install a program that is installed

[szarak]

My system is Ubuntu Intrepid 64bit.

In Ubuntu repository there is a package for Django - python web framework. It provides the same functionality as .tar.gz downloaded from project's web page. The main difference is that installed from source it provides utility called django-admin.py. Ubuntu package provides django-admin (no .py extension).

The problem occurs when you decide to install newer software version from svn or web page, instead of Ubuntu package. Bash gives an error:
"$ django-admin.py
Program django-admin nie jest obecnie zainstalowany. Można go zainstalować wpisując:
sudo apt-get install python-django
bash: django-admin: polecenie nieodnalezione"

 wich means, that a program django-admin is not installed and explains how to install it. It happens even if you use "django-admin.py" (with .py extension) which is installed and works well in other shells, like zsh.

Using full path to that program (/usr/bin/django-admin.py) works.
which django-admin gives no output.
which django-admin.py gives correct path of that script.

I'm not sure wich package provides functionality, which give's hints what software to install for the command to work.

[Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)]

Hi and thanks for helping making Ubuntu better. Please, could you paste here the output of this command:

    ls -l /usr/bin/django-admin.py

I suspect that it hasn't the executable bit set and that should be why it doesn't work as expected.

Thanks,
Andrea

[James Bennett (ubernostrum)]

IIRC, the Debian package renames "django-admin.py" to "django-admin"
due to some sort of policy regarding file extensions on scripts; is it
possible that the same is happening here?

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[Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)]

On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 17:25 +0000, James Bennett wrote:
> IIRC, the Debian package renames "django-admin.py" to "django-admin"
> due to some sort of policy regarding file extensions on scripts; is it
> possible that the same is happening here?

That's what happens in Ubuntu too. But the user is not using the package
from APT, but the package from djangoproject.com:

> The problem occurs when you decide to install newer software version
> from svn or web page, instead of Ubuntu package. [...]

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