error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status when installing psycopg2

Question

i need to install psycopg2 for openerp installation process, but i always found that error. i\'ve already used pip and easy_inst

Answer 1

On a fresh ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS on an EC2 instance, I was able to install psycopg2 after instaling the following packages:

sudo apt-get install gcc
sudo apt-get install postgres-xc-server-dev
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
sudo apt-get install postgresql-client-common
sudo apt-get install postgresql-common

And on a fresh AMI linux (CentOS) instance:

sudo yum install postgresql-devel
sudo yum install gcc*

Hope it helps,

Erez

Answer 2

psycopg2 is also available on PyPI in the form of wheel packages for the most common platform (Linux, OSX, Windows): this should make you able to install a binary version of the module, not requiring the above build or runtime prerequisites.

You can use this command : pip install psycopg2-binary

Note The psycopg2-binary package is meant for beginners to start playing with Python and PostgreSQL without the need to meet the build requirements. If you are the maintainer of a publish package depending on psycopg2 you shouldn’t use ‘psycopg2-binary’ as a module dependency. For production use you are advised to use the source distribution.

Answer 3

May Your system is missing the Python headers. To fix this, run:

sudo apt-get install python-dev

or

sudo apt-get install python3-dev

Answer 4

i had this problem but was solved by running:

pip install -Iv psycopg2==2.7.7

There is a problem installing the latest version + python3.7

Answer 5

For me, the missing package was

libpqxx-devel.x86_64

Answer 6

The invocation of gcc failed, gcc couldn't compile the source. Probably the cause is

./psycopg/psycopg.h:31:22: error: libpq-fe.h: No such file or directory In file included from psycopg/psycopgmodule.c:29:

that the header libpq-fe.h is nowhere in the search path if you have it at all.