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Distribution specific notes to install Django
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Introduction
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Those from the Linux (and almost all unices) are used to first look if the 
software they want is packaged for their distribution. And, yes, there are
distributions which package Django! 

If your distribution is listed below, you are in luck, there's a package 
for you.

Debian
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On 25-10-2006 Django hit the Debian unstable archive, and it entered testing 
on time, so the next Debian stable release (etch) will include it!

If you are running `etch`_, `sid`_ or have apt sources for them you can simply run:
   apt-get install python-django

Or use your favorite package manager, it's up to you!

Due to policy changes on the python packaging on Debian you are not likely to
succeed installing those packages on sarge (current stable release).

You will also need at least one database backend whose package names are:
* python-psycopg
* python-psycopg2
* python-pysqlite2
* python-mysqldb

And for the ImageField, which requires PIL: python-imaging
Also python-ipython is recommended to provide an enhaced shell to manage.py

.. _etch: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/
.. _sid: http://www.debian.org/releases/sid/