How to install django-oembed in WebFaction

Gave me some trouble, so I’d figure I would write a short guide for those of you unfamiliar with Linux. (By the way, if you guys need a good Web Host, I highly recommend the guys at Webfaction.com)

Anyway, here is how you do it:

CD into your webapp. Usually, it’s something like this: /home/username/webapps/your_app/
Create a directory called “src”, like this: mkdir src
CD into the directory: cd src
Download django-oembed by typing: svn checkout http://django-oembed.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ django-oembed
Link oembed to the PYTHONPATH by typing: ln -s `pwd` /../src/django-oembed/oembed lib/python2.5/
Now, simple update settings.py on your_app:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'oembed',
)

Easy!

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EDIT: Thank you for the correction Sean. I appreciate it.

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Sean
26 Dec, 2009

That’s almost correct, but you have a problem in step 5.

Since you are in the ‘src’ directory, “pwd” will return “/home/username/webapps/your_app/src”, and the command will fail because a) there is no “”/home/username/webapps/your_app/src/src” directory and b) there is no “/home/username/webapps/your_app/src/lib/python2.5″ directory.

So, tf you’re going to create the symlink while in the “src” directory, be sure to account for that, eg:

ln -s `pwd`/../src/django-oembed/oembed ../lib/python2.5/
Rommel
26 Dec, 2009

@Sean Thanks! Fixed it.
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