Install Django
Install Django
Now, that we have created a virtual environment, we are ready to install Django.
Note: Remember to install Django while you are in the virtual environment!
Django is installed using pip, with this command:
(myworld) ... $ python -m pip install Django
Which will give a result that looks like this (at least on my Windows machine):
Collecting Django
Downloading Django-5.1.7-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.1 kB)
Collecting asgiref<4,>=3.8.1 (from Django)
Downloading asgiref-3.8.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.3 kB)
Collecting sqlparse>=0.3.1 (from Django)
Downloading sqlparse-0.5.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.9 kB)
Collecting tzdata (from Django)
Downloading tzdata-2025.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.4 kB)
Downloading Django-5.1.7-py3-none-any.whl (8.3 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8.3/8.3 MB 36.4 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Downloading asgiref-3.8.1-py3-none-any.whl (23 kB)
Downloading sqlparse-0.5.3-py3-none-any.whl (44 kB)
Downloading tzdata-2025.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (346 kB)
Installing collected packages: tzdata, sqlparse, asgiref, Django
Successfully installed Django-5.1.7 asgiref-3.8.1 sqlparse-0.5.3 tzdata-2025.1
[notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.3.1 -> 25.0.1
[notice] To update, run: python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
That's it! Now you have installed Django in your new project, running in a virtual environment!
Windows, Mac, or Unix?
You can run this project on either one. There can be some small differences, like some Windows versions prefers py as the first word in the command line, instead of python:
python --version
In the rest of this tutorial, we will be using Windows commands with the python keyword.
Check Django Version
You can check if Django is installed by asking for its version number like this:
(myworld) C:\Users\Your Name>django-admin --version
If Django is installed, you will get a result with the version number:
5.1.7
What's Next?
Now you are ready to create a Django project in a virtual environment on your computer.
In the next chapters of this tutorial we will create a Django project and look at the various features of Django and hopefully make you a Django developer.
