“Failed building wheel for psycopg2” - MacOSX using virtualenv and pip

Question

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

Answer 1

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