Error installing Django CMS

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I'm very new to Django/Python. I just installed Django 1.8 yesterday. The client needs a Django CMS setup. I followed the necessary steps on the Django CMS website to install it on my Mac and it keeps erroring out:

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The help guide talks about library dependencies. And I don't even understand the error well enough to know if that's the problem. I installed Pillow, not sure if that was necessary..

https://djangocms-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/libraries.html I don't understand what any of this means and if this is related. Do I need any of these libraries to make it work? None of those commands look like the install commands I'm used to.

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pythondjangodjango-cms
The first error I can see is "Permission denied" when writing to /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django_treebeard-4.1.0.dist-info. As a separate question, are you trying to install django and the CMS in a virtual environment? If not, you should take a look at using them. - Tony
You say you "just installed django 1.8 yesterday", was that for this project or were you emphasising that you are new to django? I only ask as I followed the steps to install django cms on the project page (django-cms.org/en) and it all worked fine. The only time I needed to run anything as a super user was to upgrade virtualenv and/or pip. Have you followed the steps shown? - Tony
Last question before I go to bed... why does the client need a django cms? If you are not familiar with django why not use Wordpress, Drupal or some other CMS that can be easily installed? - Tony
The client has every other project in Django. We are a PHP house, yes. But they are paying us to learn and requested a CMS. I installed Django and Python yesterday and started watching tutorials. And today learned about their CMS request and tried to set it up - pinksharpii
Can you confirm if you have followed the steps shown on the project page? It should not be necessary to install django or pillow manually, in the test I performed all dependencies are automatically installed. And have you upgraded pip and virtualenv? e.g. $ pip install --upgrade pip and $ pip install --upgrade virtualenv - Tony

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Please try the following:

cd into the directory where you store all your projects

And now:

Create virtualenv

virtualenv my_new_project

Change to new virtualenv

cd my_new_project

Activate virtualenv

source bin/activate

Install djangocms-installer

pip install djangocms-installer

Setup a new django CMS site

djangocms my_new_site
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I was able to finally figure this out. Even though I swear I did this initially, pretty much any step along the way had to be done with sudo. Not sure why, as there are no strange permissions set up on my computer. As a separate issue, I had to change the permissions of the sqlite db after it got all setup as well.