[Solved-4 Solutions] pg_config executable not found



Error Description:

  • Trouble installing psycopg2. We get the following error when we try to pip install psycopg2:

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 ... 
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  • or with the pg_config option in 'setup.cfg'.
  • Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build/psycopg2

Solution 1:

  • pg_config is in postgresql-devel (libpq-dev in Debian/Ubuntu, libpq-devel on Cygwin/Babun.)

Solution 2:

  • On Mac OS X, we can solve it with
brew install postgresql 
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Solution 3:

  • Have you installed python-dev? If you already have, try also installing libpq-dev
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev python-dev 
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Solution 4:

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev  
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