Question

I have a directory for a django project on my localhost

/MyDjangoList/

In this folder I have a django application called PK

I downloaded django-registration and unzipped the folder into the /MyDjangoList/

I went into terminal and went to the django-registration folder and ran

python setup.py install.

It did a bunch of things then spit out the following:

error: could not create ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/registration’: Permission denied

The Install file says I can just put it into the same folder as my project, so do I even need to install this? If so, how do I properly install it?

Answer 1

If you want to install it to a system folder, I’d recommend:

sudo pip install django-registration

you may need to:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

beforehand (assuming ubu/debian).

If you’d like to put it alongside in a folder instead, unzip it, and use it just as if it was another Django app. That means take a look and see that everything is in the standard places, e.g:

.../<project>/<app>/{*.py|models|templates|etc..}