Seeing Error: b'You need to install postgresql-server-dev-X.Y for building a server-side extension or libpq-dev for building a client-side application.\n'

[abhiramr]

I was trying to install recap-core and I got this error -

Took me a couple of reads before I realized what I was missing.

Added the minor guideline in PR #72

[criccomini]

Thanks for the PR! This is helpful, though I don't want to put it in the README--there are a lot of these types of issues with Python. Instead, I think I'm going to convert this issue to a Q&A discussion, and put your answer in it. That way it's discoverable from Google.

[criccomini]

Per- the PR #72:

If you get an error saying:

site-packages/setuptools/config/setupcfg.py:508: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: The license_f      writing manifest file '/tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-d7upprw6/psycopg2.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
      Error: b'You need to install postgresql-server-dev-X.Y for building a server-side extension or libpq-dev for building a client-side application.\n'
      [end of output]

You can install libpq-dev using sudo apt install libpq-dev and retry installing recap-core.

[criccomini]

BTW, there's some more information on this here:

https://www.psycopg.org/docs/install.html

psycopg2 is currently bundled with Recap to make DB crawling easier, but I think I'm going to eliminate the dependency since we have DuckDB out of the box now. I've opened #75.