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Psycopg2 in a VirtualEnv

July 21, 2011

I tried to install psycopg2 in a VirtualEnv on debian, and got the following:

(perc360)drumcoder@drumcoder:~$ easy_install psycopg2
Searching for psycopg2
Reading <a href="http://pypi.python.org/simple/psycopg2/">http://pypi.python.org/simple/psycopg2/</a>
Reading <a href="http://initd.org/psycopg/">http://initd.org/psycopg/</a>
Reading <a href="http://initd.org/projects/psycopg2">http://initd.org/projects/psycopg2</a>
Best match: psycopg2 2.4.2
Downloading <a href="http://initd.org/psycopg/tarballs/PSYCOPG-2-4/psycopg2-2.4.2.tar.gz">http://initd.org/psycopg/tarballs/PSYCOPG-2-4/psycopg2-2.4.2.tar.gz</a>
Processing psycopg2-2.4.2.tar.gz
Running psycopg2-2.4.2/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-HzKn-1/psycopg2-2.4.2/egg-dist-tmp-H2K9j7
Error: pg_config executable not found.

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