Installing psycopg2 into virtualenv when PostgreSQL is not installed on development system

Question

Is it possible to install psycopg2 into a virtualenv when PostgreSQL isn\'t installed on my development system—MacBook Pro with OS X 10.6?

When I run

Answer 1

brew install postgresql

export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"

export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"

pip3 install psycopg2

Answer 2

You don't need the complete PostgreSQL installed: you only need the client side libraries.