Comments on: Can’t find the PostgreSQL client library (libpq)

By: WV

WV — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:27:47 +0000

Thank you sooooo much!

By: sersdeadluty.science

sersdeadluty.science — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 22:14:43 +0000

I don’t think you need the postgres development files, everything you need should have been included with your installer. It’s more likely that the path they’re installed to isn’t in your environment path and therefore gem can’t find them when it tries to compile pg.

By: Gideon Kitili

Gideon Kitili — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:13:20 +0000

Thanks alot. Saved me alot of stress

By: David Ozersky

David Ozersky — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:22:20 +0000

Thank you so much. I spent hours on this. You should post this on stackoverflow

By: Elango

Elango — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:41:33 +0000

Thanks dude, saved my day

By: Shlomi

Shlomi — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:09:09 +0000

Neither for me :(

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:44:48 +0000

Didn’t work for me. I tried both: x86_64 and i386.

By: Florent Delannoy

Florent Delannoy — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:47:45 +0000

Good point! I updated the post with your solution. Thanks!

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:41:59 +0000

You can however wrap the entire statement with sudo with the desired effect without logging in as root. e.g. sudo env ARCHFLAGS=”-arch x86_64″ gem install pg

By: CÃ©sar

Like a charm. Thanks.