PostgreSQL gem pg was unable to install

Question

My DB is PostgreSQL.I am on CENTOS.... While installing the pg gem I received the following error. I reinstalled to clear my YAML problem also, which didn\'t work, but it is jus

Answer 1

I got the same error on Centos. By googling I found two commands to use:

1. yum install postgresql-libs -- It gave me message saying, its already installed.
2. yum install postgresql-devel -- It solved my error related to pg_config for installing the 'pg' .gem.

Hope it helps :)

apos wrote: on Ubuntu 14.04 install:

1. apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-9.3 libpq-dev