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Refs #30948 -- Updated install instructions to use pip instead of set…
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Co-authored-by: Nick Pope <[email protected]>
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4 changes: 1 addition & 3 deletions INSTALL
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To install it, make sure you have Python 3.6 or greater installed. Then run
this command from the command prompt:

python setup.py install

If you're upgrading from a previous version, you need to remove it first.
python -m pip install .

For more detailed instructions, see docs/intro/install.txt.
6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions docs/faq/troubleshooting.txt
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-----------------------------------

:doc:`django-admin </ref/django-admin>` should be on your system path if you
installed Django via ``python setup.py``. If it's not on your path, you can
find it in ``site-packages/django/bin``, where ``site-packages`` is a directory
within your Python installation. Consider symlinking to :doc:`django-admin
installed Django via ``pip``. If it's not on your path, you can find it in
``site-packages/django/bin``, where ``site-packages`` is a directory within
your Python installation. Consider symlinking to :doc:`django-admin
</ref/django-admin>` from some place on your path, such as
:file:`/usr/local/bin`.

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions docs/ref/django-admin.txt
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project's ``settings.py`` file.

The ``django-admin`` script should be on your system path if you installed
Django via its ``setup.py`` utility. If it's not on your path, you can find it
in ``site-packages/django/bin`` within your Python installation. Consider
Django via ``pip``. If it's not on your path, you can find it in
``site-packages/django/bin`` within your Python installation. Consider
symlinking it from some place on your path, such as ``/usr/local/bin``.

For Windows users, who do not have symlinking functionality available, you can
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