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Asked: 2026-05-29T13:26:28+00:00

I didnt find any tutorial on adding an existing app to a Django project.

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I didnt find any tutorial on adding an existing app to a Django project.
Can anyone helps me out ?
For example I want to add this http://code.google.com/p/django-friends/ to my existing project.
What are proper steps ?

I tried python setup.py install, it went well but nothing seems to change in my interface.
Im noob of Django so please bear with me.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Most of the active and popular projects are well documented and will have install instructions in their README files, have their own wiki pages, or will have docs hosted somewhere like readthedocs.org. Presence of installation instructions as well as settings and API documentation is usually a good sign of a stable and maintained app.

    As others have mentioned- you’ll always have to put the app in your INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py file. Sometimes there are additional custom settings which need to be defined, middleware or context processors to be added, and urls which need to be defined. After doing these things as necessary, you’ll need to run manage.py syncdb and restart your webserver or the dev server.

    Update: for comparison check out Django Debug Toolbar’s README. If you get used to installing some of popular apps by following their docs, you’ll get used to how things work and can more easily figure out the smaller apps/projects.

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