Why do I get errors with "python manage.py makemessages"?

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python manage.py makemessages CommandError: This script should be run from the Django Git tree or your project or app tree. If you did indeed run it from the Git checkout or your project or application, maybe you are just missing the conf/locale (in the django tree) or locale (for project and application) directory? It is not created automatically, you have to create it by hand if you want to enable i18n for your project or application.

updated 2013-07-27 05:05:37 -0500

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I was having the same issue here, and I found that I should run this command in askbot main directory where is 'locale' directory located, in my case I have two directories

/apache/askbot

The main app directory contains the 'templates' and 'locale' directories...etc. and

/apache/http/app

Where 'static' directory located and the manage.py and settings.py files

So in my case to make the following commands work correctly

$ python manage.py jinja2_makemessages 
$ python manage.py compilemessages 
$ python manage.py makemessages

simply do the following

$ cd /apache/askbot
$ python ../http/app/manage.py compilemessages

Mustafa

answered 2013-08-10 13:08:44 -0500

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Work like a charm, thank you very much!.

rallende (2014-05-04 01:09:37 -0500) edit

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Firstly - for Askbot please use command jinja2_makemessages (it's the same, but works with our templates).

The error that you've shown indicates that possibly your python environment has not been initiated properly or you might be lacking the project files such as settings.py, __init__.py, all the files made by the startproject command (or in the case of askbot - with askbot-setup command).