These instructions should be followed with grain of salt. Take care to understand what is going on.
Starting out - For Ubuntu users - Installs important stuff
- sudo apt-get install curl sox mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient16-dev git-core apache2 libexpat1 ssl-cert unixodbc-dev libmyodbc phpmyadmin mercurial
- sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential python-mysqldb python-tz python-imaging
Starting out - For Mac OSX
- Install SourceTree
- Install Homebrew
- Check homebrew formula pages to see if you need anything
Now common to both :
- sudo easy_install pip
- sudo pip install virtualenv
Now you have vitrualenv installed
- cd ~
- mkdir virtualenvs
- cd virtualenvs
- virtualenv tester
- source bin/activate
At this points your terminal path should at the start have (tester). Now try :
- pip install django==1.4