sclorg/django-ex

Error: pg_config executable not found.

Tset-Noitamotua opened this issue · 5 comments

Tset-Noitamotua commented

While installing with pip install -r requirements.txt on OS X El Capitan I get an error:

(OPENSHIFT_DJANGO) @MyMac[~/_GITHUB/django-ex]$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Collecting django<1.9,>=1.8 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
  Using cached Django-1.8.17-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting django-debug-toolbar==1.5 (from -r requirements.txt (line 2))
  Using cached django_debug_toolbar-1.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting gunicorn==19.4.5 (from -r requirements.txt (line 3))
  Using cached gunicorn-19.4.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting psycopg2==2.6.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 4))
  Using cached psycopg2-2.6.1.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    running egg_info
    creating pip-egg-info/psycopg2.egg-info
    writing top-level names to pip-egg-info/psycopg2.egg-info/top_level.txt
    writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info/psycopg2.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
    writing pip-egg-info/psycopg2.egg-info/PKG-INFO
    writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/psycopg2.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    warning: manifest_maker: standard file '-c' not found
    
    Error: pg_config executable not found.
    
    Please add the directory containing pg_config to the PATH
    or specify the full executable path with the option:
    
        python setup.py build_ext --pg-config /path/to/pg_config build ...
    
    or with the pg_config option in 'setup.cfg'.
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/nr/46qp2z_s3wx14pwzl5s_dy6w0000gn/T/pip-build-hkjjeb8f/psycopg2/
bparees commented

@PI-Victor does this work on your mac?

Tset-Noitamotua commented

@bparees Installation was successfull after brew install postgresql. Thanks @PI-Victor!

PI-Victor commented

@bparees i remember this happens all the time on fedora when you don't have all the libraries. same error. :)