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sudo apt-get install python-dev


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Nigel Legg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Thomas, that worked, so some progress, but now when I do sudo pip
> psycopg2, I get an error: Python.h not found -
> In file included from psycopg/psycopgmodule.c:27:0:
> ./psycopg/psycopg.h:30:20: fatal error: Python.h: no such file or
> directory.
> Should I be downloading and building the source?
>
> Cheers, Nigel
> 07914 740972
>
>
>
> On 17 October 2013 09:57, Thomas Orozco <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  You need the Postgres client C headers to build psycopg2. Before
>> running pip install psycopg2, run:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Nigel Legg <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I am not sure whether this is really a postgres issue or a python /
>>> Django issue - please let me know if I should be posting this elsewhere.
>>> I have installed Ubuntu 13.04, Postgres 9.1 and Django. (strangely, the
>>> Ubuntu software centre says I have Python 3.3, but when I go into the
>>> Python shell it says 2.7.4).
>>> I followed the instructions on configuring Postgres from
>>> http://blog.iiilx.com/programming/how-to-install-postgres-on-ubuntu-for-django/,
>>> up to the point of adding a line to the pg_hba.conf file - Ubuntu would not
>>> let me write to this.
>>> When I tried to install psycopg2 (pip install psycopg2),  I got the
>>> following error:
>>>
>>> ERROR: you need to install postgresql-server-dev-X.Y for building a
>>> server side extension or libpq-dev for building a client-side application.
>>>
>>> What does this mean?  How do I proceed?
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance for your help.
>>>
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