Install django
via pip inside the virtualenv. I'm running Linux but you should be able to run the commands on windows.
If you need a version that's not in PyPi, download the package and install it to the virtualenv site-packages
-folder.
My site-packages
folder for project
is in ~/venvs/project/lib/python2.7/site-packages
.
To install there:
pip install downloads/Django-1.7b1.tar.gz -t ~/venvs/project/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Django will install to the site-packages
folder and is now importable from within the virtualenv. Downloads/Django-1.7b1
is no longer needed.
Below is an example where I'm installing Django 1.7b1 from a local archive to the site-packages
-folder of my virtualenv:
(project)msvalkon@Lunkwill:/tmp$ pip install /tmp/Django-1.7b1.tar.gz -t ~/venvs/project/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
Unpacking ./Django-1.7b1.tar.gz
Running setup.py egg_info for package from file:///tmp/Django-1.7b1.tar.gz
-- SNIP --
Successfully installed Django
Cleaning up...
(project)msvalkon@Lunkwill:/tmp$ python -c "import django;print django.get_version()"
1.7b1
(project)msvalkon@Lunkwill:/tmp$ deactivate
# I've got a really old version installed globally, but you can see
# that the installation worked.
msvalkon@Lunkwill:/tmp$ python -c "import django;print django.get_version()"
1.5.1
After this you should find the following output when doing pip freeze
while the virtualenv
is activated:
(project)msvalkon@Lunkwill:/tmp$ pip freeze
Django==1.7b1
argparse==1.2.1
wsgiref==0.1.2