How to Install Mezzanine on Ubuntu/Linux Mint [Complete Guide]

Mezzanine is a CMS application built on Django web framework. The installation steps are easy but your environment may not just suitable enough for it work without a problem. So, here I’m going to describe complete installation from scratch on a virtual environment.

First of all, install virtualenv:

$ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv

Then, create a virtual environment:

$ virtualenv testenv

And, activate it: $ cd testenv $ source bin/activate

Now, we have our environment set and it only has python and pip installed. Next, we are going to install some necessary packages:

(testenv)$ sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev python-setuptools python-imaging build-essential

Finally, we can install Mezzanine:

(testenv)$ pip install mezzanine

To start your first Mezzanine project: (testenv)$ mezzanine-project mytest

And create DB and run:

(testenv)$ cd mytest
(testenv)$ python manage.py createdb
(testenv)$ python manage.py runserver

Note that you’ll be asked to create a super user when you’re creating DB, do that.

After you ran your project, go to: http://127.0.0.1:8000/. You’ll visit your first Mezzanine project on your favorite browser.

• python
• django
• mezzanine
• virtualenv
• ubuntu