Installing psycopg2 command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

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I'm trying to install psycopg2 but pip install psycopg2 brings to error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Command line tools are installed

MacOS 10.15

Install using the binary directly pip install psycopg2-binary — Shreeram K
– Shreeram K, Commented Nov 10, 2019 at 18:53

FlipperPA · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-10 23:21:42Z

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This is likely because you don't have the PostgreSQL devel library installed. You have a few options:

(1) Install the binary with pip install psycopg2-binary (2) Install PostgreSQL with HomeBrew: brew install postgresql, then pip install psycopg2.

You can probably just install the binary.

answered Nov 10, 2019 at 23:21

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Manju N · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-22 04:32:44Z

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after updating the pip package error went away

To Update python3 pip package

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
 
/usr/bin/python3 get-pip.py

answered Sep 22, 2021 at 4:32

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