How to get Django

Django is available open-source under the BSD license. It requires Python version 2.3 or higher, but it has no dependencies on other Python libraries. There are a couple of ways you can get it:

Option 1. Get the latest development version

The latest and greatest Django version is the one that's in our Subversion repository (our revision-control system). Get it using this shell command, which requires Subversion:

svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/

Option 2. Get the latest official version

The latest official version is 0.96.1. Note that we may be making API changes to selected parts of Django before we reach version 1.0. See API stability for full information. Rest assured that we document each backwards-incompatible change in excruciating detail for easy upgrades.

Here's how to get version 0.96.1:

First, download Django-0.96.1.tar.gz. Then:

tar xzvf Django-0.96.1.tar.gz
cd Django-0.96.1
sudo python setup.py install

After you get it

See the installation guide for further instructions.

And be sure to sign up for the django-users mailing list, where other Django users and the Django developers themselves all hang out to help each other.