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Updated installation instructions.

Django 1.5 requires Python 2.6 or 2.7, and setup.py install over a
previous installation doesn't work.
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Thanks for downloading Django. Thanks for downloading Django.
To install it, make sure you have Python 2.5 or greater installed. Then run To install it, make sure you have Python 2.6 or greater installed. Then run
this command from the command prompt: this command from the command prompt:
python setup.py install python setup.py install
If you're upgrading from a previous version, you need to remove it first.
AS AN ALTERNATIVE, you can just copy the entire "django" directory to Python's AS AN ALTERNATIVE, you can just copy the entire "django" directory to Python's
site-packages directory, which is located wherever your Python installation site-packages directory, which is located wherever your Python installation
lives. Some places you might check are: lives. Some places you might check are:
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.7) /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.7)
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.6) /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.6)
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.5)
C:\\PYTHON\site-packages (Windows) C:\\PYTHON\site-packages (Windows)
For more detailed instructions, see docs/intro/install.txt. For more detailed instructions, see docs/intro/install.txt.