Can t find the libpq-fe h header when trying to install pg gem

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I am using the Ruby on Rails 3 1 pre version  I like to use PostgreSQL  but the problem is installing the pg gem  It gives me the following error     gem install pg Building native extensions   This could take a while    ERROR   Error installing pg      ERROR  Failed to build gem native extension            home u  rvm rubies ruby-1 9 2-p0 bin ruby extconf rb checking for pg config    no No pg config    trying anyway  If building fails  please try again with  --with-pg-config  path to pg config checking for libpq-fe h    no Can t find the  libpq-fe h header     extconf rb failed     Could not create Makefile due to some reason  probably lack of necessary libraries and or headers   Check the mkmf log file for more details   You may need configuration options   Provided configuration options      --with-opt-dir     --without-opt-dir     --with-opt-include     --without-opt-include   opt-dir  include     --with-opt-lib     --without-opt-lib   opt-dir  lib     --with-make-prog     --without-make-prog     --srcdir       --curdir     --ruby  home u  rvm rubies ruby-1 9 2-p0 bin ruby     --with-pg     --without-pg     --with-pg-dir     --without-pg-dir     --with-pg-include     --without-pg-include   pg-dir  include     --with-pg-lib     --without-pg-lib   pg-dir  lib     --with-pg-config     --without-pg-config     --with-pg config     --without-pg config   Gem files will remain installed in  home u  rvm gems ruby-1 9 2-p0 gems pg-0 11 0 for inspection  Results logged to  home u  rvm gems ruby-1 9 2-p0 gems pg-0 11 0 ext gem make out   How do I solve this problem

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In my case it was package postgresql-server-dev-8 4  I am on Ubuntu 11 04  Natty Narwhal   64 bits

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On CentOS I installed libpq-dev package using below command  yum install postgresql-devel   Executing gem install pg returned the same error as  No pg config    trying anyway  If building fails  please try again with --with-pg-config  path to pg config    Installing the gem as below solved my problem  gem install pg -- --with-pg-config  usr pgsql-x x bin pg config

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For Mac OS X just install https   postgresapp com  and follow steps for command line section and ruby  sudo mkdir -p  etc paths d  amp  amp  echo  Applications Postgres app Contents Versions latest bin   sudo tee  etc paths d postgresapp   Then   sudo ARCHFLAGS  -arch x86 64  gem install pg

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I was having a similar problem  and this fixed it for me   gem install do postgres -- --with-pgsql-server-dir  Applications Postgres app Contents MacOS --with-pgsql-server-include  Applications Postgres app Contents MacOS include server   Source   https   gist github com oisin 6562181

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On Arch Linux you will need to install postgresql-libs   sudo pacman -Syu postgresql-libs

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I encountered the same error with postgres installed through asdf  The pg-config solutions didn t work for me  Instead I had to locate the postgres include folder which contains the file and run the command with the --with-pg-include flag  gem install pg -- --with-pg-include   lt path gt   asdf installs postgres  lt version gt  include

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Can t find the libpq-fe h header    i had success on CentOS 7 0 1406 running the following commands       psql --version     gt  psql  PostgreSQL  9 4 1 yum install libpqxx-devel gem install pg -- --with-pg-config  usr pgsql-9 4 bin pg config   Alternatively  you can configure bundler to always install pg with these options  helpful for running bundler in deploy environments      bundle config build pg --with-pg-config  usr pgsql-9 4 bin pg config

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For AltLinux the package postgresqlx x-devel  in my case postgresql9 5-devel  must be installed   apt-get install postgresql9 5-devel

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I found this answer  and it was the only one that worked for me  Mac nbsp OS  - after researching for about two days     sudo su    env ARCHFLAGS  -arch x86 64  gem install pg  Building native extensions   This could take a while    Successfully installed pg-0 11 0 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for pg-0 11 0    Installing RDoc documentation for pg-0 11 0      See Stack Overflow question Can  39 t find the PostgreSQL client library  libpq

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For MacOS without installing PostgreSQL server   brew install libpq gem install pg -- --with-pg-config   usr local Cellar libpq 9 6 6 bin pg config

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I had this issue with Postgresql 9 6  I was able to fix it by doing   brew upgrade postgresql 9 6 brew link postgresql 9 6 --force gem install pg

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On Mac OS X run like this   gem install pg -- --with-pg-config     path to pg config          path to pg config    is path to pg config

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I just had this on OSX running brew and postgres 9 4   My fix was this   CONFIGURE ARGS  with-pg-include  usr local opt postgresql 9 4 include   bundle install

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I had also tried doing gem install libpq-dev  but I received this error   Can t find the  libpq-fe h header     extconf rb failed       However I found that installing with sudo apt-get  which I try to avoid using with Ruby on Rails  worked  i e   sudo apt-get install libpq-dev   or apt-get install postgres-server-dev- pg version    for postgresql 9 4 on Ubuntu 14 04   then I was able to do  gem install pg   without issues

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Only uninstalling  sudo apt-get purge  libpq-dev and re-installing  it worked for me

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Under CentOS 6 5  Squeeze  I created a file     sudo touch  etc profile d psql sh   with content   pathmunge  usr pgsql-9 3 bin   Note here  you should set your PostgreSQL path with the pg config file  You can find this with the command     sudo find   -iname pg config   Save the file     sudo chmod  x  etc profile d ruby sh   and try to execute your command again   Note  Anytime you change the Bash configuration - changing the profile d configuration - you should reload Bash

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A more general answer for any Debian-based distribution  which includes Ubuntu  is the following  First  install the apt-file package running as root   apt-get install apt-file   This allows you to search for packages containing a file  Then  update its database using  apt-file update    this can be run as normal user   Then  look for the missing header using   apt-file search libpq-fe h   On my machine  this gives   libpq-dev   usr include postgresql libpq-fe h postgres-xc-server-dev   usr include postgres-xc server gtm libpq-fe h   There you go

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On Ubuntu  install the  libpq-dev  to get rid of this issue   sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

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I finally solved this problem  but not using the previously described methods   Using brew install postgresql  I find out that it had already been installed  but not linked    Find out where PostgreSQL is installed  and delete it  Then brew install postgresql again  brew link postgresql gem install pg

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On Debian 7 0  64-bit  Wheezy   just run   sudo apt-get install libpq-dev   After you successfully installed libpq-dev  run   bundle install

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Just for the record   Ruby on Rails 4 application in OS X with PostgresApp  in this case 0 17 1 version needed - kind of an old project    gem install pg -v  0 17 1  -- --with-pg-config  Applications Postgres app Contents Versions 9 3 bin pg config

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It looks like in Ubuntu that header is part of the libpq-dev package  at least in the following Ubuntu versions   11 04  Natty Narwhal   10 04  Lucid Lynx   11 10  Oneiric Ocelot   12 04  Precise Pangolin   14 04  Trusty Tahr  and 18 04  Bionic Beaver          usr include postgresql libpq-fe h       So try installing libpq-dev or its equivalent for your OS    For Ubuntu Debian systems  sudo apt-get install libpq-dev On Red Hat Linux  RHEL  systems  yum install postgresql-devel For Mac Homebrew  brew install postgresql For Mac MacPorts PostgreSQL  gem install pg -- --with-pg-config  opt local lib postgresql version number  bin pg config For OpenSuse  zypper in postgresql-devel For ArchLinux  pacman -S postgresql-libs

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I had the same issue on Amazon Linux  I could find the header libpq-fe h  but somehow it didn t work   It came from the different versions of the packages that were installed through the different users on the machine  PostgreSQL 9 2 and PostgreSQL 9 3 were installed  So  make sure of your PostgreSQL version before including the libraries   For me  the magic command line was   sudo yum install postgresql93 postgresql93-server postgresql93-libs postgresql93-contrib postgresql93-devel   Source  An almost idiot s guide to install PostgreSQL 9 3  PostGIS 2 1 and pgRouting with Yum

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My solution for Fedora 30   sudo dnf install  usr include libpq-fe h

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I fixed the same error by doing a Ruby reinstall via rvm   rvm reinstall 1 9 3

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I have tried all solutions but only works below command  pip install psycopg2-binary

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On Fedora 32  I managed to solve this same issue by installing lipq5-devel specifically  If you install postgresql from the official repository  you will have several versions that won t fix the problem  so it s really a matter of trying out which one it needs

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On macOS  previously Mac OS X and OS X   use Homebrew to install the proper headers   brew install postgresql   and then running  gem install pg   should work   Alternatively  instead of installing the whole postgresql  you can brew install libpq and export the correct PATH and PKG CONFIG PATH as explained in the  Caveats  section

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On OS nbsp X 10 9  Mavericks   I brew-installed postgresql  and I then had to rvm reinstall my Ruby  I am happy now

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I solved this installing the  postgresql-common  package  This package provides the pg config binary which is most likely what you were missing

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On OS nbsp X and MacPorts the -devel package for PostgreSQL is not required any more  Installing the pg gem works as follows      gt  sudo port install postgresql-devel     Error  postgresql-devel has been replaced by postgresql91  please install that port instead    gt  gem install pg -v  0 17 1  -- --with-pg-config  opt local lib postgresql95 bin pg config   See also this post

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The location of libpq-fe h depends on where your PostgreSQL install is  which depends on how you installed it   Use locate  http   en wikipedia org wiki Locate  28Unix 29  to find the libpq-fe h file on your machine  If it exists  it will be in the include directory of your PostgreSQL install     locate libpq-fe h  Library PostgreSQL 9 1 include libpq-fe h   The bin directory  which contains pg config  will be in the same directory as the include directory  As the error suggests  use the --with-pg-config option to install the gem     gem install pg --with-pg-config   Library PostgreSQL 9 1 bin pg config    Note that you may need to run updatedb if you have never used locate or if you haven t updated since installing PostgreSQL

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I could solve this in another way  I didn t find the library on my system  Thus I installed it using an app from PostgreSQL main website  In my case  OS nbsp X  I found the file under  Library PostgreSQL 9 1 include  once the installation was over  You may also have the file somewhere else depending on your system if you already have PostgreSQL installed   Thanks to this link on how to add an additional path for gem installation  I could point the gem to the lib with this command   export CONFIGURE ARGS  with-pg-include  Library PostgreSQL 9 1 include   gem install pg   After that  it works  because it now knows where to find the missing library  Just replace the path with the right location for your libpq-fe h

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On a Mac  I solved it using this code   gem install pg -v  0 18 4  -- --with-pg-config  Applications Postgres app Contents Versions 9 4 bin pg config

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Step 1  Make sure postgress is installed in your system   If it s already installed and you can run postgress server on your machine move to step  2    apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib  sol - fatal error  libpq-fe h  No such file or directory  sudo apt-get install ruby-dev  required to install postgress below  sudo gem install pg sudo service postgresql restart   Step 2  Some of the c   files are trying to access libpq-fe h directly and cant find  So we need to manually search every such file and replace libpq-fe h with postgresql libpq-fe h  Command for searching all occurrences of libpq-fe h in all dir and subdir is grep -rnw     -e  libpq-fe h   3  Go to All the file listed by command run in step 2 and manually change libpq-fe h with postgresql libpq-fe h

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I had the same problem on Mac OS  but I installed the PostgreSQL gem easily by using the following in a terminal   ARCHFLAGS  -arch x86 64  gem install pg    I installed PostgreSQL first with brew install postgresql

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Ubuntu 20 04 1 LTS  this seemed to work for me  sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev libpqxx-dev libpq-fe-dev libpq-dev  sudo gem install pg -- --with-pg-config  usr include postgresql pg config --with-pg-include  usr include postgresql

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On FreeBSD  9 1  the necessary package is  usr ports database postgresql-server  which when installed will also install the required header file that makes the gem install of  pg  fail  This answer here helped me find the solution but the difference in package names required a bit of searching   Hopefully this helps someone avoid a bit of head scratching when searching for the  -dev  package on a FreeBSD system

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I am running Postgres app on a Mac and I had to   export PATH  PATH  Applications Postgres app Contents Versions 9 4 bin   first  Then  bundle install   worked for me

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I recently upgraded to Mac nbsp OS nbsp X v10 10  Yosemite  and was having difficulty building the pg gem   The error reported was the typical   Using config values from  usr local bin pg config checking for libpq-fe h        extconf rb failed       My solution was to gem uninstall pg and then bundle update pg to replace the gem with the latest  I did run brew update  brew upgrade after the Yosemite install to get the latest versions of packages I had installed previously

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For CentOS 6 4   yum install postgresql-devel gem install pg   worked well

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The right answer for Mac users with Postgres app is to build against the libpq provided with that package  For example  with the 9 4 release  current as of this writing   all you need is   export CONFIGURE ARGS  with-pg-include  Applications Postgres app Contents Versions 9 4 include  gem install pg   This will keep your pg gem in sync with exactly the version of PostgreSQL you have installed  Installing something from Homebrew is a waste in this case

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