There is really no need to mess with Darwinports. Python 2.3 and sqlite come already with MacOSX. You might want to install the official Python 2.5 (from python.org) though, because it includes already the sqlite3 module.

Then just follow the installation instructions on the Django web site.

-Matt

$ sudo port install python24

—> Building python24 with target all
Error: Target com.apple.build returned: shell command “cd “/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_lang_python24/work/Python-2.4.3″ && make all” returned error 2
Command output: /usr/bin/g++-4.0 -u _PyMac_Error Python.framework/Versions/2.4/Python -o python.exe \
Modules/ccpython.o \
-ldl
/usr/bin/ld: can’t locate file for: -lgcc_s.10.4
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [python.exe] Error 1

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

if anyone has any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Joe — I believe I’m hitting the exact same problem that Jeff was having above, but while trying to install sqlite3 (“sudo port install sqlite3″ –> “Error: Target com.apple.build returned: shell command”…blah blah…”Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.” Would you mind passing on whatever helpful advice you gave to him?

Thanks!

The key here is installing and using the DarwinPorts. Port Authority will help, but there’s some underlying things you need to catch onto to make it all work.

First, there’s the path. When you’re using ports, you want to change how the computer finds programs- so you update the PATH environment variable to do that. It’s detailed in the DarwinPorts install.

I’m going to guess that if you followed my directions exactly, and they worked, that Django is ready to go using Python 2.4, but you invoked python 2.3.5 (the base installed with the Mac).

Check out the instructions at http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/docs/ch01s03.html for updating your PATH. When you type “python” on the command line at a terminal, it should tell you that it’s running python 2.4.something and “import django” shouldn’t return any errors.

david-ferrells-power-mac-g5:~/django-trunk dwf python
Python 2.3.5 (#1, Oct 5 2005, 11:07:27)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> django-admin.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in ?
NameError: name ‘django’ is not defined

Here’s some more that may help for trouble-shooting my problem:

Here’s the actual text:
david-ferrells-power-mac-g5:~/django-trunk dwf$ django-admin.py
-bash: django-admin.py: command not found

echo $PATH spit out the following:
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

I’m using the base Tiger install of python2.3, and I don’t know how to upgrade to python2.4 (I’m not a Terminal guru, so any advice will be welcome)

I’m able to see all files at /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django

I installed Port Authority but I don’t understand how this helped me, if at all. I didn’t use the GUI for Port Authority… I just walked through these commands verbatim and it worked:
sudo port -d selfupdate
sudo port install subversion
sudo port install sqlite3 py-sqlite python24
sudo port install py-docutils py-mx

Help?
David

Following on the MacPorts setup, you just need to add the MySQL server and the associated python database adapter. I haven’t tried this recently, but the following should do the trick:

sudo port install mysql5 py-mysql

There’s more to be done regarding setting up MySQL, but that’s really best left to a more detailed description on MySQL specifically.

This tutorial has been excellent by the way!

Jason

Onward to Turbogears, or Rails.

This seemed like it would be the easiest solution (next to that non-existent one-click install), and hopefully this is only an initial roadblock. (Also, I’m not sure if you were thinking about updating the link in the article for the new site for DarwinPorts, or if you were planning on updating the article for the 0.95 release. Just a thought.)

No one-click install for any platform.

my clients will get lost in too many steps…

It seems to be a permissions issue on Mac. See the comments at http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/install/ – it says chmod 644 on your django/bin directory will fix the issue, but shamefully I had to use 777 to get the thing working.