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Re: install perl DBD::Pg problem

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juliani.moon@gmail.com wrote:
> I encounter a problem installing perl DBD::Pg on Ubuntu 
> with regard to Pg information.
> 
> Here is what I did:
> 
> Ubuntu_bash> sudo apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-9.1
> and it's up running.
> 
> Ubuntu_bash> sudo cpan
> CPAN> install DBD::Pg
> ................................................
> Enter a valid PostgreSQL postgres major version number 9
> Enter a valid PostgreSQL postgres minor version number 1
> Enter a valid PostgreSQL postgres patch version number 13
> You need to install postgresql-server-dev-X.Y for building a server-side extension or libpq-dev for building a client-side application.
                                                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[...]
> Pg.h:35:22: fatal error: libpq-fe.h: No such file or directory
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[...]
> Could someone suggest what was wrong and how can I get by this?

DBD::Pg is a client-side application, so you need to install the
libpq-dev package (which is obviuosly missing, as the missing header
file indicates), not the package for server-side extensions.

Ralf
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install perl DBD::Pg problem juliani.moon@gmail.com - 2014-05-19 14:21 -0700
  Re: install perl DBD::Pg problem Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2014-05-19 22:43 +0100
    Re: install perl DBD::Pg problem Julian M <juliani.moon@gmail.com> - 2014-05-19 15:12 -0700
  Re: install perl DBD::Pg problem "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2014-05-19 17:02 -0500
  Re: install perl DBD::Pg problem Ralf Döblitz <doeblitz@doeblitz.net> - 2014-05-19 22:06 +0000

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