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This is covered in the manual.
Converting an app to use South is very easy:
- Edit your settings.py and put ‘south’ into
INSTALLED_APPS
(assuming you’ve installed it to the right place)- Run
./manage.py syncdb
to load the South table into the database. Note that syncdb looks different now – South modifies it.- Run
./manage.py convert_to_south myapp
– South will automatically make and pretend to apply your first migration.Note that you’ll need to convert before you make any changes; South detects changes by comparing against the frozen state of the last migration, so it cannot detect changes from before you converted to using South.
Source:stackexchange.com