Error(after updating to django 1.9

[Deepak Gupta]

I am trying to create a project
CommandError: /home/shaastr/bnms/manage.py already exists, overlaying a project or app into an existing directory won't replace conflicting files

[James Schneider]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Deepak Gupta <deegup...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to create a project
CommandError: /home/shaastr/bnms/manage.py already exists, overlaying a project or app into an existing directory won't replace conflicting files

Are you trying to create a project with the same name in the same location? You'll need to either delete/move the existing project, or pick a new name/location for your new project.

If you are just trying to update Django itself, but keep the same project files, then there's no need to start a new project. You'll just update the code in your existing project to work with Django 1.9 after updating your Django installation (usually through pip). 

-James 

[inspiringword]

Try to remove django manually 

sudo pip uninstall django

[inspiringword]

Try to remove manually

     sudo pip uninstall django
     sudo rm /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django_* -rf 

 Then install latest version 
     sudo pip install django==<version>

this worked for me.

On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 10:24:17 PM UTC+5:30, Deepak Gupta wrote: