I'm attempting to make a website with a few others for the first time, and have run into a weird error when trying to use Django/Python/VirtualEnv. I've found solutions to this problem for other operating systems, such as Ubuntu, but can't find any good solutions for Mac.
This is the relevant code being run:
virtualenv -p python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
After running that block, I get the following errors:
AssertionError
Failed building wheel for django-toolbelt
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for psycopg2
...
AssertionError
Failed building wheel for psycopg2
Failed to build django-toolbelt psycopg2
I believe I've installed the "django-toolbelt" and "psycopg2", so I'm not sure why it would be failing.
The only difference I can think of is that I did not use the command
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
as was instructed for Ubuntu usage as I believe that installing postgresql with brew took care of the header.
Thanks for any help or insight!
For MacOS users
After trying all the above methods (which did not work for me on MacOS 10.14), that one worked :
Install openssl with brew install openssl if you don't have it already.
add openssl path to LIBRARY_PATH :
export LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/
install psycopg2 with pip pip3 install psycopg2
I had the same problem on Arch linux. I think that it's not an OS dependant problem. Anyway, I fixed this by finding the outdated packages and updating then.
pip uninstall psycopg2
pip list --outdated
pip install --upgrade wheel
pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install psycopg2
I was also getting same error.
Using Python 3.7.3 and pip 19.1.1.
I used following command.
pip install psycopg2-binary==2.8.3
TDLR
If you aren't used to installing Python C-extensions, and psycopg2 isn't a core part of your work, try
pip install psycopg2-binary
Building Locally
psycopg2 is a C-extension, so it requires compilation when being installed by pip. The Build Prerequisites section of the docs explain what must be done to make installation via pip possible. In summary (for psycopg 2.8.5):
a C compiler must be installed on the machine
the Python header files must be installed
the libpq header files must be installed
the pg_config program must be installed (it usually comes with the libpq headers) and on $PATH.
With these prerequisites satisfied, pip install psycopg2 ought to succeed.
Installing pre-compiled wheels
Alternatively, pip can install pre-compiled binaries so that compilation (and the associated setup) is not required. They can be installed like this:
pip install psycopg2-binary
The docs note that
The psycopg2-binary package is meant for beginners to start playing with Python and PostgreSQL without the need to meet the build requirements.
but I would suggest that psycopg2-binary is often good enough for local development work if you are not using psycopg2 directly, but just as a dependency.
Concluding advice
Read the informative installation documentation, not only to overcome installation issues but also to understand the impact of using the pre-compiled binaries in some scenarios.
I had same problem and this appears to be a Mojave Issue, I was able to resolve with:
sudo installer -pkg /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg -target /
For Mac OS X users:
1. First check your postgresql path by running this command in terminal:
pg_config
If this fails lookup how to add pg_config to your path.
2. Next install Xcode Tools by running this command in terminal:
xcode-select --install
If you have both those sorted out now try to install psycopg2 again
For MacOS users, this question has the correct solution:
install command line tools if necessary:
xcode-select --install
then
env LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" pip install psycopg2
I was also facing the same after running all the above commands, but the following two commands worked for me:
Instead of pip, use this:
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
then run this command:
pip install psycopg2
On OS X, I was able to solve this by simply upgrading wheel before installing psycopg2:
pip install --upgrade wheel
For OSX Sierra users, it seems that an xcode update is the solution: Can't install psycopg2 package through pip install... Is this because of Sierra?
I tried all the above solutions but they did not work for me. What I did was change the psycopg2 version in my requirements.txt file from psycopg2==2.7.4 to psycopg2==2.7.6
Is your error message complete? the most encountered reason for failing to install psycopg2 on mac from pip is pg_config is not in path.
by the way, using macports or fink to install psycopg2 is more recommended way, so you don't have to worry about pg_config, libpq-dev and python-dev.
plus, are using Python 3.5? then upgrage your wheel to > 0.25.0 using pip.
I faced the same issue, but the answers above didn't work for me.
So this is what I did in my requirements.txt
psycopg2-binary==2.7.6.1 and it worked fine
I had this issue on several packages, including psycopg2, numpy, and pandas. I simply removed the version from the requirements.txt file, and it worked.
So instead of psycopg2-binary==2.7.6.1 I just had psycopg2-binary.
I know you are asking for development environment but if you are deploying on server say, Heroku. Just add below line in the requirements.txt of your project.
django-heroku==0.3.1
As this package itself will install the required packages like psycopg2 on server deployment.So let the server(heroku) should take care of it.
sudo apt install libpq-dev python3.X-dev
where X is the sub version,
these should be followed by :
pip install --upgrade wheel
pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install psycopg2
Enjoy !!!
I solved my problem by updating/installing vs_BuildTools. The link to the software was given in the error itself.
Error Image
Fixed by installing python3.7-dev: sudo apt install python3.7-dev, based on the link.
Python: 3.7
Ubuntu: 20.04.3 LTS
I'm using virtualenv and I need to install "psycopg2".
I have done the following:
pip install http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/psycopg2/psycopg2-2.4.tar.gz#md5=24f4368e2cfdc1a2b03282ddda814160
And I have the following messages:
Downloading/unpacking http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/psycopg2/psycopg2
-2.4.tar.gz#md5=24f4368e2cfdc1a2b03282ddda814160
Downloading psycopg2-2.4.tar.gz (607Kb): 607Kb downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package from http://pypi.python.org/packages/sou
rce/p/psycopg2/psycopg2-2.4.tar.gz#md5=24f4368e2cfdc1a2b03282ddda814160
Error: pg_config executable not found.
Please add the directory containing pg_config to the PATH
or specify the full executable path with the option:
python setup.py build_ext --pg-config /path/to/pg_config build ...
or with the pg_config option in 'setup.cfg'.
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
running egg_info
creating pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info
writing pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info\PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info\top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
warning: manifest_maker: standard file '-c' not found
Error: pg_config executable not found.
Please add the directory containing pg_config to the PATH
or specify the full executable path with the option:
python setup.py build_ext --pg-config /path/to/pg_config build ...
or with the pg_config option in 'setup.cfg'.
----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in C:\Documents and Settings\anlopes\Application Data\pip\p
ip.log
My question, I only need to do this to get the psycopg2 working?
python setup.py build_ext --pg-config /path/to/pg_config build ...
Note: Since a while back, there are binary wheels for Windows in PyPI, so this should no longer be an issue for Windows users. Below are solutions for Linux, Mac users, since lots of them find this post through web searches.
Option 1
Install the psycopg2-binary PyPI package instead, it has Python wheels for Linux and Mac OS.
pip install psycopg2-binary
Option 2
Install the prerequsisites for building the psycopg2 package from source:
Debian/Ubuntu
Python 3
sudo apt install libpq-dev python3-dev
You might need to install python3.8-dev or similar for e.g. Python 3.8.
Python 2
sudo apt install libpq-dev python-dev
If that's not enough, try
sudo apt install build-essential
or
sudo apt install postgresql-server-dev-all
as well before installing psycopg2 again.
CentOS 6
See Banjer's answer
macOS
See nichochar's answer
On CentOS, you need the postgres dev packages:
sudo yum install python-devel postgresql-devel
That was the solution on CentOS 6 at least.
If you're on a mac you can use homebrew
brew install postgresql
And all other options are here: http://www.postgresql.org/download/macosx/
On Mac Mavericks with Postgres.app version 9.3.2.0 RC2 I needed to use the following code after installing Postgres:
sudo PATH=$PATH:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/bin pip install psycopg2
I recently configured psycopg2 on a windows machine. The easiest install is using a windows executable binary. You can find it at http://stickpeople.com/projects/python/win-psycopg/.
To install the native binary in a virtual envrionment, use easy_install:
C:\virtualenv\Scripts\> activate.bat
(virtualenv) C:\virtualenv\Scripts\> easy_install psycopg2-2.5.win32-py2.7-pg9.2.4-release.exe
For Python 3 you should use sudo apt-get install libpq-dev python3-dev under Debian.
This is what worked for me (On RHEL, CentOS:
sudo yum install postgresql postgresql-devel python-devel
And now include the path to your postgresql binary dir with you pip install:
sudo PATH=$PATH:/usr/pgsql-9.3/bin/ pip install psycopg2
Make sure to include the correct path. Thats all :)
UPDATE: For python 3, please install python3-devel instead of python-devel
The answers so far are too much like magic recipes. The error that you received tells you that pip cannot find a needed part of the PostgreSQL Query library. Possibly this is because you have it installed in a non-standard place for your OS which is why the message suggests using the --pg-config option.
But a more common reason is that you don't have libpq installed at all. This commonly happens on machines where you do NOT have PostgreSQL server installed because you only want to run client apps, not the server itself. Each OS/distro is different, for instance on Debian/Ubuntu you need to install libpq-dev. This allows you to compile and link code against the PostgreSQL Query library.
Most of the answers also suggest installing a Python dev library. Be careful. If you are only using the default Python installed by your distro, that will work, but if you have a newer version, it could cause problems. If you have built Python on this machine then you already have the dev libraries needed for compiling C/C++ libraries to interface with Python. As long as you are using the correct pip version, the one installed in the same bin folder as the python binary, then you are all set. No need to install the old version.
If you using Mac OS, you should install PostgreSQL from source.
After installation is finished, you need to add this path using:
export PATH=/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH
or you can append the path like this:
export PATH=.../:usr/local/pgsql/bin
in your .profile file or .zshrc file.
This maybe vary by operating system.
You can follow the installation process from http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/04/linux-postgresql-install-and-configure-from-source/
On Debian/Ubuntu:
First install and build dependencies of psycopg2 package:
# apt-get build-dep python-psycopg2
Then in your virtual environment, compile and install psycopg2 module:
(env)$ pip install psycopg2
Run below commands and you should be fine
$ apt-get update
$ apt install python3-dev libpq-dev
$ pip3 install psycopg2
I've done this before where in windows you install first into your base python installation.
Then, you manually copy the installed psycopg2 to the virtualenv install.
It's not pretty, but it works.
Before you can install psycopg2 you will need to install the python-dev package.
If you're working from Linux (and possibly other systems but i can't speak from experience) you will need to make sure to be quite exact about what version of python your running when installing the dev package.
For example when I used the command:
sudo apt-get install python3-dev
I still ran into the same error when trying to
pip install psycopg2
As I am using python 3.7 I needed to use the command
sudo apt-get install python3.7-dev
Once I did this I ran into no more issues. Obviously if your on python version 3.5 you would change that 7 to a 5.
Besides installing the required packages, I also needed to manually add PostgreSQL bin directory to PATH.
$vi ~/.bash_profile
Add PATH=/usr/pgsql-9.2/bin:$PATH before export PATH.
$source ~/.bash_profile
$pip install psycopg2
For MacOS,
Use the below command to install psycopg2, works like charm!!!
env LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" pip install psycopg2
On windows XP you get this error if postgres is not installed ...
I installed Postgresql92 using the RedHat / CentOS repository on PG's downloads site http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/
To get pg_config, I had to add /usr/pgsql-9.2/bin to PATH.
On Fedora 24: For Python 3.x
sudo dnf install postgresql-devel python3-devel
sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config
Activate your Virtual Environment:
pip install psycopg2
Psycopg2 Depends on Postgres Libraries.
On Ubuntu You can use:
apt-get install libpq-dev
Then:
pip install psycopg2
I've been battling with this for days, and have finally figured out how to get the "pip install psycopg2" command to run in a virtualenv in Windows (running Cygwin).
I was hitting the "pg_config executable not found." error, but I had already downloaded and installed postgres in Windows. It installed in Cygwin as well; running "which pg_config" in Cygwin gave "/usr/bin/pg_config", and running "pg_config" gave sane output -- however the version installed with Cygwin is:
VERSION = PostgreSQL 8.2.11
This won't work with the current version of psycopg2, which appears to require at least 9.1. When I added "c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.2\bin" to my Windows path, the Cygwin pip installer was able to find the correct version of PostgreSQL, and I was able to successfully install the module using pip. (This is probably preferable to using the Cygwin version of PostgreSQL anyway, as the native version will run much quicker).
On OpenSUSE 13.2, this fixed it:
sudo zypper in postgresql-devel
For lowly Windows users were stuck having to install psycopg2 from the link below, just install it to whatever Python installation you have setup. It will place the folder named "psycopg2" in the site-packages folder of your python installation.
After that, just copy that folder to the site-packages directory of your virtualenv and you will have no problems.
here is the link you can find the executable to install psycopg2
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
On Ubuntu I just needed the postgres dev package:
sudo apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-all
*Tested in a virtualenv
I could install it in a windows machine and using Anaconda/Spyder with python 2.7 through the following commands:
!pip install psycopg2
Then to establish the connection to the database:
import psycopg2
conn = psycopg2.connect(dbname='dbname',host='host_name',port='port_number', user='user_name', password='password')
In Arch base distributions:
sudo pacman -S python-psycopg2
pip2 install psycopg2 # Use pip or pip3 to python3
On OSX 10.11.6 (El Capitan)
brew install postgresql
PATH=$PATH:/Library/PostgreSQL/9.4/bin pip install psycopg2
On OSX with macports:
sudo port install postgresql96
export PATH=/opt/local/lib/postgresql96/bin:$PATH
if pip is not working than you can download .whl file from here https://pypi.python.org/pypi/psycopg2
extract it..
than python setup.py install
I was having this problem, the main reason was with 2 equal versions installed. One by postgres.app and one by HomeBrew.
If you choose to keep only the APP:
brew unlink postgresql
pip3 install psycopg2
Installation on MacOS
Following are the steps, which worked for me and my team members while installing psycopg2 on Mac OS Big Sur and which we have extensively tested for Big Sur. Before starting make sure you have the Xcode command-line tool installed. If not, then install it from the Apple Developer site. The below steps assume you have homebrew installed. If you have not installed homebrew then install it. Last but not the least, it also assumes you already have PostgreSQL installed in your system, if not then install it. Different people have different preferences but the default installation method on the official PostgreSQL site via Enterprise DB installer is the best method for the majority of people.
Put up the linkage to pg_config file in your .zshrc file by: export PATH="$PATH:/Library/PostgreSQL/12/bin:$PATH". This way you are having linkage with the pg_config file in the /Library/PostgreSQL/12/bin folder. So if your PostgreSQL installation is via other means, like Postgres.app or Postgres installation via homebrew, then you need to have in your .zshrc file the link to pg_config file from the bin folder of that PostgreSQL installation as psycopg2 relies on that.
Install OpenSSL via Homebrew using the command brew install openssl. The reason for this is that libpq, the library which is the basis of psycopg2, uses openssl - psycopg2 doesn't use it directly. After installing put the following commands in your .zshrc file:
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl#1.1/bin:$PATH"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl#1.1/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl#1.1/include"
By doing this you are creating necessary linkages in your directory. These commands are suggested by brew while you install openssl and have been directly picked up from there.
Now comes the most important step, which is to install libpq using the command brew install libpq. This installs libpq library. As per the documentation
libpq is the C application programmer's interface to PostgreSQL. libpq is a set of library functions that allow client programs to pass queries to the PostgreSQL backend server and to receive the results of these queries.
Link libpq using brew link libpq, if this doesn't work then use the command: brew link libpq --force.
Also put in your .zshrc file the following export PATH="/usr/local/opt/libpq/bin:$PATH". This creates all the necessary linkages for libpq library .
Now restart the terminal or use the following command source ~/.zshrc.
This works even when you are working in conda environment.
N.B. pip install psycopg2-binaryshould be avoided because as per the developers of the psycopg2 library
The use of the -binary packages in production is discouraged because in the past they proved unreliable in multithread environments. This might have been fixed in more recent versions but I have never managed to reproduce the failure.
I want to install gudhi packages.
It seems that the package only says that it can be installed only with anaconda. But I want to install it with pip , not anaconda.
When I checked the package, I found a zip file called tar.bz2, which I tried to install using it, but I can not figure out what to do.
And I do not know if this is the right way.
So I would like to seek advice.
Thank you for reading.
There is no pip install gudhi available.
If you don't want to go with conda, you will have to follow the installation guide.
If make cython works, you can then [sudo] python[3] setup.py install to install it on your system.
[EDIT]
A gudhi pip package is now available.
I am a little bit confused....
I installed anaconda on my computer (I have windows 10).
Normally, when I want to install a package I simply do "pip install package_name" or "conda install package_name" and it is done.
First question: what is the difference between pip and conda?
Now I tried to install xgboost and it was really complicated I tried lot of things nothings worked until I install something called miniconda.
There it works but now, when I do "conda install package_name" it install it in miniconda3/lib/site _package and I have to copy/paste it in Anaconda3/lib/site_package if I want it to work.
Second question: how can I ask to the computer that "conda install
package_name" install it directly in anaconda3 and not miniconda3?
Finally I tried to install the package "surprise" for recommended systems. Both "pip install" or "conda install" failed.
I went in github and got the file "surprise" from https://github.com/NicolasHug/Surprise
I tried to copy it in Anaconda3/lib/site_package but it doesn't work.
When I do from surprise import Reader I did not get the error "no module name surprise" anymore but I get "cannot import name 'Reader'"
Last question: how can I make it work? I think I have to build it but
I do not now how...
Thank you in advance for anyone that can explain all this for me :-)
Similarly to you, I had issues installing the surprise package.
I tried both pip install surprise and conda install surprise unsuccessfully.
conda install -c conda-forge scikit-surprise
conda install -c conda-forge/label/gcc7 scikit-surprise
conda install -c conda-forge/label/cf201901 scikit-surprise
I found those on the anconda website and the first one worked for me.
Hopefully this would help you as well
pip vs conda
pip is a package manager that facilitates installation, upgrade,
and uninstallation of python packages. It also works with virtual python environments.
conda is a package manager for any software (installation, upgrade and uninstallation).
It also works with virtual system environments.
Conda is a packaging tool and installr that aims to do more than what pip does;
handle library dependencies outside of the Python packages as well as the Python packages themselves.
Conda also creates a virtual environment, like virtualenv does.
For more see here
Anaconda vs miniconda
The open source version of Anaconda is an easy-to-install
high performance Python and R distribution with a package manager,
environment manager and collection of 720+ open source packages.
It also comes with the options to install RStudio.
The "lite" version of Anaconda without the collection of 720 packages.
The downside is that you need to type in command line commands,
"conda install PACKAGENAME"
And Last
To install this package with conda run:
conda install -c anaconda py-xgboost=0.60
Update for surprise
The easiest way is to use pip (you'll need numpy):
$ pip install numpy
$ pip install scikit-surprise
Or you can clone the repo and build the source (you'll need Cython and numpy):
$ git clone https://github.com/NicolasHug/surprise.git
$ python setup.py install
I am running python 3.6 on windows and am attempting to install Shapely using
pip install shapely==1.6b2
It is giving me the following errors
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Cameron\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-242ae_ih\shapely\
I have seen the other posts about this issue and have tried:
pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install ez_setup
easy_install -U setuptools
Nothing seems to work and I am not sure what to do next. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
You may try to use the binary from this unofficial site. Just use pip install {wheel file name} to install it.
Shapely‑1.5.17‑cp36‑cp36m‑win32.whl (32-bit)
Shapely‑1.5.17‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl (64-bit)
Hope this would make the installation easier.
I had a similar error for installing shapely-1.5.17 via pip install shapely, and installing this made the pip install command work thereafter:
sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev
As of 2020, you can now simply install Shapely for Windows with:
pip install shapely
(you many need --upgrade to get at least version 1.7.0, when binary wheels were added for Windows)