On Sep 24, 2:14 am, phi...@semanchuk.com wrote: > Quoting Wolodja Wentland <wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de>: > > > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:24 -0700, devaru wrote: > >> I'm trying to install psycopg2 on my system. I followed the > >> instruction in INSTALL file and gave the command > >> python setup.py build > >> running build > >> running build_py > >> running build_ext > >> error: No such file or directory > > > I ran into this some days ago. The problem is not related to the > > distribution you downloaded, but to missing information about PostgreSQL > > itself. > > > IIRC the file in question is "/usr/bin/pg_config". The file is > > probably packaged > > in some lib*-dev package on your distribution. > > That's the most common install problem with psycopg2 -- setup.py can't > find (or execute) pg_config which it needs to decide how to talk to > Postgres. I remember it giving a different (and more descriptive) > error but I haven't used psycopg2 recently. > > To the OP: if executing pg_config fails from the same command line in > which you're running setup.py, then Wolodja is absolutely correct. You > need to get pg_config on your path somewhere, or there might be an > environment variable you can set to tell setup where to find it if you > don't want it in your path. > > Good luck > Philip > > > > > --- Debian example --- > > $ apt-file search /usr/bin/pg_config > > libpq-dev: /usr/bin/pg_config > > --- snip --- > > > thanks for all the fish > > > Wolodja > >
Thank you all. Yes, as Philip and Wolodja have said, we need pg_config in the PATH variable for psycopg2 to build. Then I ran into a problem where I had to install the dependency package python-devel. Now psycopg2 installed fine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
