Update Ubuntu to the latest, from the command line:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Lets add Git for source code versioning:
sudo apt-get install git
Ubuntu 14.04 already comes with Python 3 pre-installed, so all we need is to add the pip3 command:
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
In order to work with python3 and pip3 more as if it were the default python, add the following to the .bash_aliases file and source the file to added these new aliases:
python='python3' pip='pip3'
Now all we need is to add is a development sandbox:
sudo pip install virtualenv sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper
Add the virtualenvwrapper settings to the .bashrc file and source the file to setup the environment for use:
# VirtualEvnWrapper settings: export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/dev source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
Let's create the working environment:
pip install Django==1.7
Finally we setup Git:
git config --global user.name 'Your Name' git config --global user.email your.address@your.provider
One thing to notice, is that the current Django 1.7 driver for MySQL is not working: MySQLdb. Yet the python connector supports Django and works fairly well:
pip install --allow-all-external mysql-connector-python
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'mysql.connector.django',
'NAME': 'YourDatabaseName',
'USER': 'YourUserName',
'PASSWORD': 'YourPassword'
}
}
