Versions collected as of nov 14 2012

======================================== MAC
I'm using macports 
$ sudo port install python27 py27-pip py27-django
(not even sure if pip is needed then...)
-> 1.4.1_0

NOTE: I haven't found the magic sentence to expose django-admin-2.7.py
as simply django-admin.py
There's this 'port select' command that can be used for selecting
which python to use, which I believe would come in handy here too
Except that it insists on taking a so-called 'group' name and I can't
find out what to use here

~/git/django-playground $ port select --list django
Warning: Unable to get active selected version: The specified group
'django' does not exist.

======================================== fedora(16)
$ sudo yum install Django
WARNING: version 1.3 !!
-> 1.3.4-1

(Fedora17 has 1.4.2)
======================================== debian(wheezy)
$ sudo apt-get install python-django
-> 1.5.2

NOTE. (this has more to do with my own vserver-based technique to
create debian VM's)

======================================== Install from tarball

https://www.djangoproject.com/download/

$tar xzvf Django-1.5.2.tar.gz
$cd Django-1.5.2
$sudo python setup.py install

=============== Install locales [needed]
I found it useful to also do the following at some point 
# apt-get install locales
# dpkg-reconfigure locales
-> en_US.UTF-8

The thing is I enter my debian box from a MAC through ssh, and the
MAC has this set: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
and I was getting a lot of warnings relating to that anyways

==================== postinstall
. manage.py syncdb
. manage.py collectstatic --noinput

====================