There are errors when I install django by git?

Question

I install django through :

git clone git://github.com/django/django.git

pip install -e django/

I use Ubuntu 16.04.

But some errors occur :

Obtaining file:///home/leo/django
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/home/leo/django/setup.py", line 32, in <module>
        version = __import__('django').get_version()
      File "django/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
        from django.utils.version import get_version
      File "django/utils/version.py", line 60, in <module>
        @functools.lru_cache()
    AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'lru_cache'
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /home/leo/django/

How to fix this ? Thank you.

Answer 1

The last Django version does not support python 2.7.

If you really want to use python 2.7 and also use Django you should install a previous Django version.

The latest supported is: 1.11

Therefore, just run:

pip install django==1.11

Answer 2

This because django version you have needs python3 interpreter. so try to run the same command using pip3

To install pip3 sudo apt-get -y install python3-pip

then run

pip3 install -e django/