Question

I’m using The Definitive guide to installing Django on ubuntu and ironically need something more definitive because I can’t make it work.

(I have followed the steps before this on the link above)

Here is my situation/standstill:

drewverlee@ubuntu:/var/src$ tar xzvf Django-1.3.1.tar.gz
tar (child): Django-1.3.1.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

So it tells me there is no file Django-1.3.1.tar.gz? I think I can check for a file by us by:

drewverlee@ubuntu:/var/src$ ls
index.html  index.html.1
drewverlee@ubuntu:/var/src$

What do I need to do?

Answer 1

Indeed, following the link I get the same problem, first.

mv index.html Django-1.3.1.tar.gz

fixes it for me. Then you can continue with

tar xzvf Django-1.3.1.tar.gz