In order to use django-maintenance you'll need a functional installation of Django 1.0 or later.
There are several ways to install django-maintenance: using a package
management tool such as easy_install or pip, or manually installing a
Python package from a source code tarball or a Github checkout.
After the Python package has been installed you'll need to configure your
Django project to use django-maintenance. Please refer to the usage
instructions in docs/overview.markdown for details on configuring your
Django project.
This document is written in the Markdown format and contains some inline HTML. This document is also available online at http://github.com/steingrd/django-maintenance/blob/master/INSTALL.markdown.
The easiest way to install django-maintenance is to use a Python package
management tool such as easy_install or pip. If you are not
familiar with such tools, now might be a good time to get started using them.
Once one of these tools are up and running you should be able to install django-maintenance by executing a single command.
For easy_install:
$ easy_install django-maintenance
Or if you prefer pip:
$ pip install django-maintenance
If you prefer to manually install packages or to use distutils from the
command line you can download the latest stable version of django-maintenance
from http://wiki.github.com/steingrd/django-maintenance.
Extract the downloaded file, inside the directory named django-maintenance
you'll find a directory named maintenance. Either move (or symlink) this
directory to somewhere on you Python path, or execute the setup.py script by
running:
$ python setup.py install
Keep in mind that this command installs the package at a system-wide location and probably needs elevated privileges.
If you have Git installed on your computer, a complete copy of the django-plist repository can be checked out from Github by typing:
$ git clone git://github.com/steingrd/django-maintenance.git
The instructions for installing from a source code tarball applies to a Git checkout as well.