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| Third-party distributions of Django |
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| Many third-party distributors are now providing versions of Django integrated |
| with their package-management systems. These can make installation and upgrading |
| much easier for users of Django since the integration includes the ability to |
| automatically install dependencies (like database adapters) that Django |
| requires. |
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| Typically, these packages are based on the latest stable release of Django, so |
| if you want to use the development version of Django you'll need to follow the |
| instructions for :ref:`installing the development version |
| <installing-development-version>` from our Git repository. |
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| If you're using Linux or a Unix installation, such as OpenSolaris, |
| check with your distributor to see if they already package Django. If |
| you're using a Linux distro and don't know how to find out if a package |
| is available, then now is a good time to learn. The Django Wiki contains |
| a list of `Third Party Distributions`_ to help you out. |
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| .. _`Third Party Distributions`: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Distributions |
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| For distributors |
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| If you'd like to package Django for distribution, we'd be happy to help out! |
| Please join the |django-developers| mailing list and introduce yourself. |
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| We also encourage all distributors to subscribe to the |django-announce| mailing |
| list, which is a (very) low-traffic list for announcing new releases of Django |
| and important bugfixes. |
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