The instructions that I've laid out below should handle most of the process, but if you get confused (or want to validate that something is correct), check out this awesome tutorial for setting up a Django environment -- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/
Whenever you see a white background with red text coloring in the sections below, that is a bash command to be run in your terminal.
Start by installing the following:
- Command Line Tools for Xcode or Xcode - Available at the Apple Dev Center. Command Line Tools for Xcode is a smaller package but is only available for OS X Lion or higher, if you don't have it, download and install Xcode.
- Homebrew - Download and install at http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew. Please follow the instructions carefully and place your Brew directory (
/usr/local/bin
by default) at the beginning of your$PATH
.