These were the tasks I needed to perform before I could get diesel_cli installed.
These are the packages referenced in the README that need to be installed for postgresql and sqlite 3:
postgresql
postgresql-contrib
libpq-dev
(Not enough to just set up postgresql, need this forlibpq
)sqlite3
Then needed to set up postgresql using this tutorial.
After this was able to install diesel_cli and then run the setup with the newly created credentials following the instructions in README