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Minor Debian/Ubuntu install instruction update.

This is all a bit of a mess (and fragile and mostly their own fault),
but this at least gives people a clue. Fixes #16287. Patch from
bpeschier.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16647 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
Malcolm Tredinnick 13 years ago
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@@ -170,6 +170,12 @@ This file should also be located in your ``site-packages`` directory.
     (Note that this should be run from a shell prompt, not a Python interactive
     prompt.)
 
+    Some Debian-based Linux distributions have separate ``site-packages``
+    directories for user-installed packages, such as when installing Django
+    from a downloaded tarball. The command  listed above will give you the
+    system's ``site-packages``, the user's directory can be found in
+    ``/usr/local/lib/`` instead of ``/usr/lib/``.
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 .. _install-django-code:
 
 Install the Django code