How To Check Your Django Version In Ubuntu

If you have been working with Django for sometime, you will have noticed how fast the framework development has been going. So, once in a while you need to check that you are not using a very old version.

It is quite easy to upgrade, but believe me, some people never bother at all. There are different reason for not upgrading, - either you have some production code that rely on specific packages in that version - and upgrading means that you will need to rewrite all those code, or you are simply just too lazy to do it.

But if however, you want to know what version is running on your server, simply running this command should do the trick.

helen@helen-server:~$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 20 2012, 22:44:07)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import django
>>> django.get_version()
'1.4'
>>>

As you can see from the output above, our current version is 1.4, which at the time of this blog post was the latest version.

If you see that your version is a bit older, then simply upgrade by using this command.
This is best simply because it is short and easy to remember for beginners out there.

% sudo apt-get upgrade django

Enter your root password and the upgrade will commence.

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Update: it is interesting that since 2012 when this post was first published here, a number of people have found it useful enough that the amount of traffic to this post is fourth on the list of the highest read post on this blog. It goes to show that even a small tip on how to accomplish something can be quite useful.

I guess you can also check the version of your installed Django on any platform with the command above - it doesn't necessarily have to only be on Ubuntu. I was primarily working on Ubuntu back then when this post was written so simply checking your Django version on any platform should work regardless.