Installed Django but django-admin is not found - django-admin

Question

I just installed django using pip but when I try to create a new project using django-admin I get "bash: django-admin: command not found".
I tried installing django in a virtualenv but I'm still getting the same error when trying to create a new project.
While I was trying to solve this issue I found this: Installing Django with pip, django-admin not found
The last answer is saying that django-admin may not be on the path. Can anyone explain me please what does this mean?
If I run "find / -name django-admin.py" I get this:
/home/user/.local/bin/django-admin.py
/home/user/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py
/home/user/django-admin.py
Can anyone give me some help please? Thank you.

Answer 1

You have installed Django using your account instead of sudo
so do the following to resolve this
$ pip3 uninstall django
$ sudo pip3 install django
This is the output
$which django-admin
/usr/local/bin/django-admin

Answer 2

I had the same problem. My "solution" was to call django-admin directly like
/usr/local/bin/django-admin startproject MyProject

Answer 3

I also experienced this error but none of the above works for me.
This is how I got this silly mistake of me. Example,
$ mkdir django_test cd django_test
$ pipenv shell
(django_test)$ django-admin startproject django_test .
zsh:command not found: django-admin
To solve this error: Don't forget to install your django version in your virtual environment first if you are using.
$ mkdir django_test cd django_test
$ pipenv shell
(django_test)$ pipenv install django==3.0.5 # change the version you are using
(django_test)$ django-admin startproject .

Answer 4

Just in case someone is experiencing this issue, you can just install django using apt package manager instead of pip.
I am not sure if this is the best way to do it but it worked for me.
First you need to uninstall the current installation of django. In this case you can run $ python -m pip uninstall Django
Then run $ sudo apt install python3-django
That should fix the issue.