Ubuntu: Fix "An error occurred while installing pg"

Henning Koch

September 11, 2014Software engineer at makandra GmbH

If you get an error like this:

An error occurred while installing pg (0.17.1), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that gem install pg -v '0.17.1' succeeds before bundling.

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Then do this:

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

... and run Bundler again.

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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2014-09-11 11:57)