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How to install pgAdmin 4 in desktop mode? The documentation only details server mode.

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  • The docker version sure was a lot easier and faster way of installing PGAdmin4. I spent a lot of time to do it the old way that was in the readme file. The way to access it then is in a browser window, point it to 0.0.0.0:5050 and it comes up real good. It loads quite fast BUT when I try to create a server with it it keeps saying that Postgresql is NOT running, however in PGAdmin3 Postgresql is running fine. Have read many comments saying what a poor product it is so use at your own risk!!! May 15, 2017 at 12:54
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    Only pgadmin3 is available on apt (ubuntu 16.04). Any idea how to open a request to Canonical to include pgadmin4 in apt packages? What's the process of requesting an "app" to be included in a package manager? Dec 26, 2017 at 8:47
  • @AlikElzin-kilaka - check my answer below for the apt approach. May 30, 2018 at 13:31
  • If anyone just wants pgAdmin3 you can simply install it using the Ubuntu Software application that's on all Ubuntu installations. Aug 22, 2019 at 13:23

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For pgAdmin 4 v4.21 on Ubuntu, according to the download page:

Install dependencies, create a virtual environment, download, install & configure

Using Python2.x

sudo apt-get install virtualenv python-pip libpq-dev python-dev

cd
virtualenv pgadmin4
cd pgadmin4
source bin/activate

pip install https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin/pgadmin4/v4.21/pip/pgadmin4-4.21-py2.py3-none-any.whl

Using Python3.6 (Preferred to avoid encoding related issues)

sudo apt-get install virtualenv python3-pip libpq-dev python3-dev

cd
virtualenv -p python3 pgadmin4
cd pgadmin4
source bin/activate

pip3 install https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin/pgadmin4/v4.21/pip/pgadmin4-4.21-py2.py3-none-any.whl

Configure

Override default paths and set it to single-user mode in the local configuration file:

nano lib/python2.7/site-packages/pgadmin4/config_local.py

For Python3.x:

nano lib/python3.6/site-packages/pgadmin4/config_local.py

Write:

import os
DATA_DIR = os.path.realpath(os.path.expanduser(u'~/.pgadmin/'))
LOG_FILE = os.path.join(DATA_DIR, 'pgadmin4.log')
SQLITE_PATH = os.path.join(DATA_DIR, 'pgadmin4.db')
SESSION_DB_PATH = os.path.join(DATA_DIR, 'sessions')
STORAGE_DIR = os.path.join(DATA_DIR, 'storage')
SERVER_MODE = False

Run

python lib/python2.7/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py

For Python3.x:

python3 lib/python3.6/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py

Access

Access at http://localhost:5050

Exit

Exit with Ctrl-C

Run again

cd ~/pgadmin4
source bin/activate
python lib/python2.7/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py

For Python3.6

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/pgadmin4
source bin/activate
python3 lib/python3.6/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py

Make a shortcut

touch ~/pgadmin4/pgadmin4
chmod +x ~/pgadmin4/pgadmin4
nano ~/pgadmin4/pgadmin4

Write:

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/pgadmin4
source bin/activate
python lib/python2.7/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py

For Python3.6

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/pgadmin4
source bin/activate
python3 lib/python3.6/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py

Now you can just run it with a simpler command:

~/pgadmin4/pgadmin4

Python3 users

Replace [x] in Python3.6 with your respective version.

Conflict with pgAdmin 3 configuration

pgAdmin 4 will not start in the environment where pgAdmin 3 was previously installed and used because of incompatible configuration in the .pgadmin directory. The simplest solution is to either clear that directory or tweak config_local.py to point to a clean new .pgadmin4 directory.

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  • 404 on that wget. Apr 14, 2017 at 6:52
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    I'd like to add that so I can quickly run it, I added this to my ~/.bashrc : alias pgadmin="source ~/pgadmin4/bin/activate && python ~/pgadmin4/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py" That way I can just type pgadmin and it launches, like it SHOULD out of the box. You listening pgadmin? Jun 13, 2017 at 21:32
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    Here is the correct link for FTP v2.1: ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin/pgadmin4/v2.1/pip/…
    – Aïssa
    Jan 22, 2018 at 12:42
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    Could the hard linking to python3.6 dependency in the python3 lib/python3.6/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py be removed/replaced? That way the answer would be more future proof.
    – paul23
    Sep 4, 2018 at 18:22
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    On Ubuntu 19.04 which comes with Python 3.7 swap out every occurence of 3.6 with 3.7 in the Python 3.x instructions. May 19, 2019 at 9:15
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Other option is to use docker and a docker image provided by thaJeztah - https://github.com/thaJeztah/pgadmin4-docker

$ docker run --rm -p 5050:5050 thajeztah/pgadmin4

Then to access a PostgreSQL DB instance from within pgadmin4 you should use the IP of the host instead of localhost and 127.0.0.1 since Docker will map those to the container itself.

The IP of a dockerised DB instance could be found with 2 steps:

  • find the container ID of your db with:

    docker ps

  • inspect the container_name to find its ip with:

    docker inspect <ID from previous step>

you are looking for something like "IPAddress": "172.18.0.3"

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    How can you make it see a dockerized postgres? localhost/127.0.0.1/container id did not work for me.
    – ampofila
    Apr 18, 2017 at 12:04
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    Can we set the IP static i.e. we don't have to update our application to point to new docker container IP every time we restart it
    – Nam G VU
    Sep 16, 2017 at 4:45
  • Nice, added a chromium application shortcut, and it's almost like having the actual application back-
    – chrismarx
    Jan 22, 2018 at 15:26
  • Other way to connect the host database: stackoverflow.com/questions/24319662/…
    – qmn1711
    Sep 24, 2018 at 13:17
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On Ubuntu 16.04 you can install pgadmin4 with

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
sudo apt install wget ca-certificates
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add 
sudo apt update
sudo apt install pgadmin4

I have tested this on 16.04.

source for the above approach

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  • Okay, one another thing i want to know that how do i start if i installed it on server.
    – Akhilendra
    Aug 3, 2018 at 7:27
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    For Ubuntu based distros like Mint you may want to replace the $(lsb_release -cs) with the version of Ubuntu it's based on. For example, Mint Sarah (version 18) is based on Xenial and looks like this: sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ xenial-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list' Sep 28, 2018 at 22:47
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    It looks like the ultimate solution, at least for Ubuntu +16.xx. Thanks !
    – Bonlou
    Nov 19, 2018 at 10:47
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Finally, pgAdmin team created an apt package for pgAdmin4

It is supported on:

  • Debian 9 (Stretch), 10 (Buster)
  • Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial), 18.04 (Bionic), 19.10 (Eoan), 20.04 (Focal)

Now to install it you have to setup the the pgAdmin 4 offical repository, then you can install it

Setup the repository

Install the public key for the repository (if not done previously)

curl https://www.pgadmin.org/static/packages_pgadmin_org.pub | sudo apt-key add

Create the repository configuration file:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin/pgadmin4/apt/$(lsb_release -cs) pgadmin4 main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgadmin4.list && apt update'

Install pgAdmin4

You can install both Desktop and Web modes:

sudo apt install pgadmin4

For Desktop only:

sudo apt install pgadmin4-desktop

For Web only:

sudo apt install pgadmin4-web 

Source: https://www.pgadmin.org/download/pgadmin-4-apt/

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  • I have installed the desktop version (6.1) and when entering I see there is a newer version (6.3) however when I run "sudo apt install pgadmin4-desktop" I still get "pgadmin4-desktop is already the newest version (6.1).". How can I update it to 6.3 ?
    – thanos.a
    Dec 17, 2021 at 8:11
  • @thanos.a try sudo apt update first, then sudo apt install pgadmin4-desktop
    – Hazem
    Dec 17, 2021 at 21:01
  • It used to tell me that I am using the latest version 6.1. Once I updated my Ubuntu version from 20.04 to 21.04, I was able to install 6.3
    – thanos.a
    Dec 20, 2021 at 8:53

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