How to find pg_config path
django, macos, postgresql, python
Solution
I recommend that you try to use Postgres.app. (http://postgresapp.com) This way you can easily turn Postgres on and off on your Mac. Once you do, add the path to Postgres to your `.profile` file by appending the following:
PATH="/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/bin:$PATH"
Only after you added Postgres to your path you can try to install `psycopg2` either within a virtual environment (using pip) or into your global site packages.
Problem
Complete newbie here, trying to set up Django to work with PostgreSQL. I'm using mac osx 10.6.8. I have also installed PostgreSQL 9.3 When I run `pip install psycopg2` in terminal I get the following error ``` Downloading/unpacking psycopg2 Downloading psycopg2-2.5.2.tar.gz (685kB): 685kB downloaded Running setup.py (path:/private/var/folders/A9/A99cs6x0FNusPejCVkYNTE+++TI/-Tmp-/pip_build_bengorman/psycopg2/setup.py) egg_info for package psycopg2 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'. ``` I've seen a number of posts on this how-to-install-psycopg2-with-pip-on-python pg-config-executable-not-found but I have no clue how to find the bin folder location containing pg_config. Any tips on finding this path?