In this tutorial guide, I will be taking through the installation of pgAdmin 4 version 6.3 on Ubuntu 20.04.
pgAdmin 4 is a free and open-source management tool for Postgres. Its desktop runtime written in NWjs allows it to run standalone for individual users, or the web applications code may be directly deployed on a web server for use by the web browser.
pgAdmin 4 is a complete rewrite of pgAdmin, built using Python and Java
New features of pgAdmin 4 version 6.3
The following new features were introduced for the latest release of 6.2. these features are mostly for bug fixes.
- It added support for Two-factor authentication for improving security. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is an extra layer of security used when logging into websites.
- Added support to disable the auto-discovery of the database servers. The feature allows one to disable the auto-discovery of database servers
- Include GSSAPI support in the PostgreSQL libraries and utilities in MacOS
You can refer to pgAdmin 4 documentation for more concerning the bug fixes introduced with the current version 6.3
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To install pgAdmin 4, we are going to set up Python environment. We will be working on a virtual environment to install pgAdmin 4.
Install pgAdmin 4 on Ubuntu 20.04
1. Run system updates
To begin our installation we need to make our system repositories up to date by running system-wide updates with the following command.
$ sudo system update
$ sudo system upgrade -y
$ sudo reboot -n2. Setup Python Environment
To ensure that you don’t run into any problem make sure Python is installed. If not installed check this tutorial out first. How to install Python 3.9 interpreter on Ubuntu 20.04
If you have installed Python successfully, you can now set up the virtual environment.
First, create a pgadmin folder under opt directory.
$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/pgadminNext is to create a virtual environment, but first ensure that ensurepip is running. To install this run the following command so that you don’t run into errors.
$ sudo apt install python3.8-venv This command will install python3.8-venv package plus many additional dependency packages
Sample Output
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libfprint-2-tod1 libgtkglext1 libllvm9 libminizip1 libpangox-1.0-0 shim
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
libpython3.8 libpython3.8-dev libpython3.8-minimal libpython3.8-stdlib
python3.8 python3.8-dev python3.8-minimal
Suggested packages:
python3.8-doc binfmt-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
python3.8-venv
The following packages will be upgraded:
libpython3.8 libpython3.8-dev libpython3.8-minimal libpython3.8-stdlib
python3.8 python3.8-dev python3.8-minimal
7 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 91 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,444 B/10.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 33.8 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
....$ python3 -m venv /opt/pgdmin/venv The next process is to activate the virtual environment. Do so with the following command.
$ source /opt/pgadmin/venv/bin/activate3. Install pgAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04
Having created a virtual environment, we can now install our pgAdmin using pip utility.
$ pip install pgadmin4 Sample output
Collecting pgadmin4
Downloading pgadmin4-6.3-py3-none-any.whl (114.2 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 114.2 MB 583 kB/s
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ReadTimeoutError("HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=15)")': /simple/six/
Collecting six==1.*
Downloading six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (11 kB)
Collecting python-dateutil==2.*
Downloading python_dateutil-2.8.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (247 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 247 kB 302 kB/s
Collecting Flask-SocketIO>=5.0.1
Downloading Flask_SocketIO-5.1.1-py3-none-any.whl (17 kB)
Collecting Flask==2.*
Downloading Flask-2.0.2-py3-none-any.whl (95 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 95 kB 527 kB/s
Collecting Flask-Paranoid==0.*
Downloading Flask_Paranoid-0.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (4.1 kB)
Collecting psycopg2-binary==2.8.*
Downloading psycopg2_binary-2.8.6-cp38-cp38-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (3.0 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 3.0 MB 338 kB/s
Collecting SQLAlchemy==1.4.*
Downloading SQLAlchemy-1.4.29-cp38-cp38-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (1.6 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 1.6 MB 141 kB/s
Collecting cryptography==3.*
Downloading cryptography-3.4.8-cp36-abi3-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (3.2 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 3.2 MB 533 kB/s
Collecting sqlparse==0.*
Downloading sqlparse-0.4.2-py3-none-any.whl (42 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 42 kB 263 kB/s
Collecting ldap3==2.*
Downloading ldap3-2.9.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (432 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 432 kB 197 kB/s
Collecting eventlet==0.33.0
4. Run pgadmin 4 setup.py
First, we need to create a directory where pgAdmin stays
$ mkdir /var/lib/pgadmin
$ mkdir /var/log/pgadminThen run the setup.py with the following command
$ python3 /opt/pgadmin/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pgadmin4/setup.pyYou will get the following output
Output
NOTE: Configuring authentication for SERVER mode.
Enter the email address and password to use for the initial pgAdmin user account:
Email address: [email protected]
Password:
Retype password:
pgAdmin 4 - Application Initialisation
======================================
Note the email and password used.
5. Add pgAdmin user
The pgadmin user to be added will run all the pgAdmin processes. So to add the user run the following command on your terminal.
$ adduser --system --group --home var/lib/pgadmin --disabled-login --shell /usr/sbin/nologin/pgadmin Then you need to allow the user to access the /var/log/pgadmin, /var/lib/pgadmin and opt/pgadmin directories.
$ chown -R pgadmin:pgadmin /var/log/pgadmin /var/lib/pgadmin/ /opt/pgadminThat is all for now, to access the pgAdmin on the browser, type pgadmin4 on the terminal and use the HTTP link provided. To login into pgAdmin 4 use the email and password you setup before.
$ pgadmin4
Starting pgAdmin 4. Please navigate to http://127.0.0.1:5050 in your browser.
2022-01-04 21:16:16,920: WARNING werkzeug: WebSocket transport not available. Install simple-websocket for improved performance.
* Serving Flask app 'pgadmin' (lazy loading)
* Environment: production
WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
Use a production WSGI server instead.
* Debug mode: offConclusion
We have successfully installed and configured pgAdmin 4 on our system. Continue visiting this site for informative tutorials.
