Ubuntu, Postgres, and psycopg2.

[Nigel Legg]

I am not sure whether this is really a postgres issue or a python / Django issue - please let me know if I should be posting this elsewhere.
I have installed Ubuntu 13.04, Postgres 9.1 and Django. (strangely, the Ubuntu software centre says I have Python 3.3, but when I go into the Python shell it says 2.7.4). 
I followed the instructions on configuring Postgres from http://blog.iiilx.com/programming/how-to-install-postgres-on-ubuntu-for-django/, up to the point of adding a line to the pg_hba.conf file - Ubuntu would not let me write to this.
When I tried to install psycopg2 (pip install psycopg2),  I got the following error:

ERROR: you need to install postgresql-server-dev-X.Y for building a server side extension or libpq-dev for building a client-side application.

What does this mean?  How do I proceed?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

[Thomas Orozco]

You need the Postgres client C headers to build psycopg2. Before running pip install psycopg2, run:

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

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[Nigel Legg]

Thanks Thomas, that worked, so some progress, but now when I do sudo pip psycopg2, I get an error: Python.h not found -

In file included from psycopg/psycopgmodule.c:27:0:

./psycopg/psycopg.h:30:20: fatal error: Python.h: no such file or directory.

Should I be downloading and building the source?

Cheers, Nigel
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[Thomas Orozco]

You're missing:

sudo apt-get install python-dev

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[Matthias Müller]

You need the python header as well:

sudo apt-get install python-dev

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