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Reputation: 159

Update to Django 1.7 with pip

I updated from Django 1.5.8 to 1.7:

pip install Django==1.7
Downloading/unpacking Django==1.7
  Downloading Django-1.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl (7.4MB): 7.4MB downloaded
Installing collected packages: Django
  Found existing installation: Django 1.5.8
    Uninstalling Django:
      Successfully uninstalled Django
  Rolling back uninstall of Django
Cleaning up...
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 283, in run
    requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_path)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 1435, in install
    requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 671, in install
    self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 901, in move_wheel_files
    pycompile=self.pycompile,
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 247, in move_wheel_files
    clobber(source, dest, False, fixer=fixer, filter=filter)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 209, in clobber
    shutil.copy2(srcfile, destfile)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 130, in copy2
    copyfile(src, dst)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile
    with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/bin/django-admin.py'

Storing debug log for failure in /Users/stefanieness/Library/Logs/pip.log

This is my error message.

But when I run

python
import django
print(django.get_version())

I get 1.7. Can I use the version like that or do I have to reinstall it? Will it work?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5699

Answers (1)

Burhan Khalid
Burhan Khalid

Reputation: 174624

This is because the first time you installed django, you did sudo pip install django, which has installed django in your global Python interpreter as the root user (or the superuser).

You can only have one version of django in your global Python interpreter, so once you upgrade it, any of your django applications that are using the global Python interpreter (in other words, not using a virtual environment) will be automatically upgraded to 1.7

If you don't have any other django projects, then this doesn't really have any negative effects - but as a best practice, you should use virtual environments so that you can easily test versions of libraries.

To solve your immediate problem, you need to sudo pip install -U django which will upgrade django to the latest stable release.

Upvotes: 4

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