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First you'll need to install python.

sudo apt-get install python

Once Python is installed, download the tarball from the Django Project website. For this example I used version 1.0.2. You can download this file to your home directory.

cd
wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.0.2/tarball/
tar xzvf Django-1.0.2-final.tar.gz

Now we can just move this entire package to somewhere logical.

sudo mv Django-1.0.2-final /usr/local/lib/django-1.0.2/

Link to it from the Python site-packages directory, and create a link to the django-admin.py executable.

cd /usr/local/lib/django-1.0.2/
sudo ln -s `pwd`/django /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django
sudo ln -s `pwd`/django/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin/

Test it by changing to your home directory and running django-admin!

$ django-admin.py --version
1.0.2 final