Installing Django in a virtual environment

Install and configure virtualenvwrapper

pip install virtualenvwrapper

# Create a directory to hold the virtual environments.
mkdir $HOME/.virtualenvs

echo "
# Python's virtualenvwrapper-RELATED
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh 
" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Install Django in a virtual environment

Change ENV_NAME, below, to whatever you want to call your new virtual environment. If you want to use Python 2 in your virtual environment, remove the -p `which python3` portion.

mkvirtualenv -p `which python3` ENV_NAME
pip install Django #Current version as of 2014-10-31 is v1.7.1

Documentation for virtualenv: http://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/virtualenv.html

Documentation for virtualenvwrapper: http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Other virtualenvwrapper commands

• workon - List (workon) or change working virtual environments (workon ENV_NAME)
• lssitepackages - List Python packages installed in the current virtual environment.
• rmvirtualenv ENV_NAME - Remove a virtual environment
• deactivate - Switch from a virtual environment to the system-installed version of Python. (May need to deactivate before using rmvirtualenv .)

Documentation for all virtualenvwrapper commands: http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/command_ref.html