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Add notes on not having dev files in certain Linux distributions (#128)
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### Troubleshooting source install ###
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You need postgresql's libraries and headers for C lang available in order to
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install from source. If you don't have these, you may encounter `No such file
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or directory` errors and will not be able to run the `make` step above. This
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step may depend on your OS but to install them on Debian variants use you may
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use:
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sudo apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-<YOUR_VERSION>
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Install
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