Unable to easy_install psycopg2 on debian
October 29th, 2009 by exhuma.twn
Problem:
$ easy_install psycopg2
Searching for psycopg2
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/psycopg2/
Reading http://initd.org/projects/psycopg2
Reading http://initd.org/pub/software/psycopg/
Best match: psycopg2 2.0.13
Downloading http://initd.org/pub/software/psycopg/psycopg2-2.0.13.tar.gz
Processing psycopg2-2.0.13.tar.gz
Running psycopg2-2.0.13/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-cHE0C_/psycopg2-2.0.13/egg-dist-tmp-x-CxRS
error: Setup script exited with error: No such file or directory
Searching for psycopg2
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/psycopg2/
Reading http://initd.org/projects/psycopg2
Reading http://initd.org/pub/software/psycopg/
Best match: psycopg2 2.0.13
Downloading http://initd.org/pub/software/psycopg/psycopg2-2.0.13.tar.gz
Processing psycopg2-2.0.13.tar.gz
Running psycopg2-2.0.13/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-cHE0C_/psycopg2-2.0.13/egg-dist-tmp-x-CxRS
error: Setup script exited with error: No such file or directory
Solution:
This most likely indicates that you are missing the “libpq” headers:
sudo aptitude install libpq-dev
should solve the problem
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