Libpq-devel is absent in openSUSE Leap 15

English Programming/Scripting
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I see libpq5 in the repository but not its counterpart libpq-devel. Why is there no corresponding devel-package? Normally they always go together. Otherwise I see not much sense in distributing a shared library you can’t link to in your code.

There is libpqxx-devel though but I can’t make use of it since my app is not a C++ one.

UPD: I see that version-specofoc postgresqlNN-devel packages are available, will try them, perhaps this is the answer.

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No. There are a lot of packages with single common -devel subpackage for multiple libXXX subpackages.

Always check for the feature, not for the exact package name.

zypper install 'pkgconfig(libpq)'