Re: pg_config is missing - bug?

[Tom Allison <tom@tacocat.net>]

Great.  I only need pg_config so I can install a ruby gem.  I don't  
know the issue of what's a bug or what is not -- but this is silly to  
have so many things to install and especially to include a  
distributed binary only in a dev package.  ugh!
On Nov 19, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 05:03:00AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> > I have recently installed postgres8.2 and am unable to find the  
> > pg_config
> > binary.
> >
> > I need this so that I can install ruby gems.
> >
> > I have also been unable to find this file using dpkg -S so it  
> > seems that
> > there is no package which carries this file.
>
> dpkg -S can show contents only of installed packages. Try apt-file
> instead. I think you need libpq-dev, but I'm not familiar with  
> postgres
> or what you are trying to do. BTW, are you trying to install the
> package? Because the package itself has to pull in all necessary  
> stuff,
> otherwise it's a bug.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
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