Trying to install psycopg2==2.6.1 failing due to egg_info?

Question

I'm trying to run the following:

 pip install psycopg2==2.6.1

And I get the following error:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/mk/brv9xsjn14df5th28_k1nphw0000gn/T/pip-build-S1xSB8/psycopg2

Is there anyway to fix this? I've tried upgrading pip and upgrading setup-tools to no avail.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17886647/cant-install-via-pip-because-of-egg-info-error should help you $ [sudo] python ez_setup.py $ [sudo] easy_install pip $ [sudo] pip install psycopg==2.6.1 — be_good_do_good, Feb 27 '16 at 06:26
can you try pip install psycopg2==2.6.1 --no-cache-dir so that it received the package freshly from server — be_good_do_good, Feb 27 '16 at 06:37

Eddo Hintoso · Answer 1 · 2016-02-27T06:47:44.660

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I had the same problem with you too earlier.

I strongly suspect it's because you don't have your build dependencies installed.

If you're on Ubuntu, try this:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep python-psycopg2
$ sudo pip install psycopg2==2.6.1

edited Feb 27 '16 at 06:47

answered Feb 27 '16 at 06:36

Eddo Hintoso

Unfortunately I'm on Mac – Cisplatin Feb 27 '16 at 06:41
Have you seen [this post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33866695/install-psycopg2-on-mac-osx-10-9-5-pg-config-pip)? You might need to compile it from source... – Eddo Hintoso Feb 27 '16 at 07:00

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