Re: Can't Install on Windows 8.1

Ok, everything went smoothly and beautifully as promised. I got successful install messages for pip, distribute, virtualenv and django. So first, thank you both very much. 

However, I seem to be stuck again. I am not sure how to get from my new virtualenv to django, and windows seems just as confused. When I tried startproject, windows suddenly wanted to know if I wanted to keep using python to open .py files, or use notepad or some other program? I said python, and then it hiccuped, like it was restarting Explorer, and the command line went back to the prompt with no evidence it executed the startproject command. I looked in the directory, but saw nothing to indicate there was a project started. Of course, never having worked with either django or virtualenv before, I could have missed it. So I tried again.

As before, a dialog window opened asking me what program I wanted to use. While I was taking a screenshot to save for these notes, the dialog went away and the cmd line reported back that access was denied.

Then I tried get_version and was told there was no module named django, even though just a few lines earlier I was told django was successfully installed.

Here is that last portion from my command line window:

C:\Program Files\Ampps\python\Scripts>project_sl1\Scripts\activate

(project_sl1) C:\Program Files\Ampps\python\Scripts>pip install django

Downloading/unpacking django

  Downloading Django-1.6.1.tar.gz (6.6MB): 6.6MB downloaded

  Running setup.py egg_info for package django

    warning: no previously-included files matching '__pycache__' found 

under dir

ectory '*'

    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.py[co]' found 

under direct

ory '*'

Installing collected packages: django

  Running setup.py install for django

    warning: no previously-included files matching '__pycache__' found 

under dir

ectory '*'

    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.py[co]' found 

under direct

ory '*'

Successfully installed django

Cleaning up...

(project_sl1) C:\Program Files\Ampps\python\Scripts>django-admin.py 

startproject

 project_sl1

(project_sl1) C:\Program Files\Ampps\python\Scripts>django-admin.py 

startproject

 project_sl1

Access is denied.

(project_sl1) C:\Program Files\Ampps\python\Scripts>

Just to be clear, I do want to get past this but I also want to understand what is going on, so if you can do both, that would be great. Do I need to change directories? Try opening a django project thrui the django gui? Where / how would I do that? Everything I have done so far has been thru the windows command line. 

Thanx.

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On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 11:48:22 AM UTC-6, Malik Rumi wrote:

Boy, the speedy responses on this thread are great! I can't wait to get home from work so I can put this advice into practice. And now you know what I want for Christmas 😄 - a working installation of django and python to play with.

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From: Tom Lockhart
Sent: ‎12/‎24/‎2013 9:15 AM
To: django-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Can't Install on Windows 8.1

On 2013-12-24, at 6:56 AM, Malik Rumi <malik.a.rumi@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you. One more question before I dive in: I already have python installed. Are you suggesting I remove it and start over?

No. What you will find is that virtualenv will pick up whatever python it finds and package it in a new self-contained area. At that point you will have full control over what additional things get installed. But it needs a python installation somewhere else to get started.

If you have put a bunch of packages into your native python installation and are not sure what you have, you may want to re-install just to get a clean basic installation. But I haven't had to do that and would not bother unless you see other issues.

hth

                    - Tom

On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 8:04:08 AM UTC-6, Timothy W. Cook wrote:

Since it appears that you are not too familiar with Python, this may help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_W02OwHa38

Using a virtual environment and pip will a long way to solving many of your issues.   It is considered best practice 'for a reason'.

https://zignar.net/2012/06/17/install-python-on-windows/

Then, install django and other requirements inside your virtualenv.

HTH,

Tim

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Malik Rumi <malik....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello. This is my first post. The attached Word document tracks everything I have done this morning to get this to work. 

Your insights, guidance, and assistance is greatly appreciated. 

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