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Java is just my day job. In fact, it’s pretty dull too sometimes. I like to venture out when I can and work with other technologies. In this case, I’ve been messing around with Django on my Dreamhost account. This short tutorial is intended to be the first of several related to Python and Django.

Ssh to your DH account, from the base dir…

$ mkdir opt
$ mkdir downloads
$ cd downloads
$ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.2/Python-2.5.2.tgz
$ tar xvzf Python-2.5.2.tgz
$ cd Python-2.5.2
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/ --enable-unicode=ucs4
$ make
$ make install

If that completes correctly, you can remove the tarball and the Python2.5.2 directory.

Next, update your path by adding:

export PATH=$HOME/opt/bin/:$PATH

to your .bash_profile. Then test:

$ source .bash_profile
$ python -V
Python 2.5.2

If you don’t see Python 2.5.2 after typing python -V then you’ve already done something wrong.

Next, update MySql-Python (from the downloads directory):

$ wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mysql-python/MySQL-python-1.2.2.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf MySQL-python-1.2.2.tar.gz
$ cd MySQL-python-1.2.2
$ python setup.py install

Make sure the files extract into the ~/opt/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ directory as an egg file.

Now that we have everything upgraded nicely, we can move on to installing Django.

References:

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