Installing Django 1.2.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 & PostgreSQL

Installing Postgres and Django

 sudo apt-get install postgresql pgadmin3 python-psycopg2
apt-get install python-setuptools
easy_install django 

Configuring Postgres

sudo su
passwd postgres
su postgres
psql template1

The last instruction should open the psql shell, where you can run the following:

ALTER USER postgres WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'mypassword';