Wednesday 4 April 2012

Error installing pg gem in Linux

If installing the pg gem in Linux fails with this error:

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.
...
 An error occured while installing pg (0.13.2), and Bundler cannot continue.


Installing libpq-dev should solve the problem.
 sudo apt-get install libpq-dev  

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