diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 9b79ec016b..644c524bbb 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,22 +1,16 @@ Thanks for downloading Django. -To install it, make sure you have Python 2.3 or greater installed. Then run +To install it, make sure you have Python 2.4 or greater installed. Then run this command from the command prompt: python setup.py install -Note this requires a working Internet connection if you don't already have the -Python utility "setuptools" installed. - AS AN ALTERNATIVE, you can just copy the entire "django" directory to Python's site-packages directory, which is located wherever your Python installation lives. Some places you might check are: + /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.5) /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.4) - /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.3) C:\\PYTHON\site-packages (Windows) -This second solution does not require a working Internet connection; it -bypasses "setuptools" entirely. - For more detailed instructions, see docs/intro/install.txt.