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How to Install PostgreSQL with pgAdmin4 on

Linux Mint 20

Winnie Ondara Last Updated: February 8, 2021 Linux Mint, PostgreSQL 15

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pgAdmin is an open-source feature-rich, frontend management tool that allows

you to easily administer and manage your PostgreSQL relational database from a
web browser.

It provides an easy-to-use user interface that simplifies the creation and monitoring
of databases and database objects. PgAdmin 4 is an improvement of the earlier
pgAdmin tool and is available for Linux, Windows, macOS systems, and even a
Docker container.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install PostgreSQL with pgAdmin4 on Linux
Mint 20.
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Step 1: Install PostgreSQL Database on Linux
Mint
1. To start off, launch your terminal and update your packages using the apt
package manager as shown.

$ sudo apt update -y

Once the update is complete, proceed to the next step.

Since pgAdmin4 provides a frontend interface for the management of PostgreSQL

database objects, it’s essential to have PostgreSQL installed first.

2. To do this, we are going to install the postgresql package and postgresql-

contrib which offers extended features that extend the functionality of PostgreSQL.

$ sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib

Install PostgreSQL on Linux Mint


3. Usually, PostgreSQL starts automatically on boot up. You can confirm this using
the command given below:

$ sudo systemctl status postgresql

Check PostgreSQL Status

4. To log in to your PostgreSQL instance, first switch to the postgres user. The
Postgres user comes included by default with the installation of PostgreSQL. Then
run the psql command as shown.

$ sudo -i -u postgres
$ psql
# \q

Connect to PostgreSQL Shell

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5. Additionally, you can check if the database server is accepting incoming
connections as shown.

$ sudo pg_isready

Check PostgreSQL Accepting Incoming Connections

Step 2: Install pgAdmin4 on Linux Mint

pgAdmin4 is available for Ubuntu 16.04 and later versions and can easily be
installed using the APT package manager. The same cannot support Linux Mint 20
and Pgadmi4 developers are yet to include support that allows users to easily
install the frontend management tool using the APT package manager.

6. The only viable option is to install pgAdmin4 from a virtual environment. So first,
we will install the prerequisite packages as shown.

$ sudo apt install libgmp3-dev build-essential libssl-dev

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 Install Prerequisite Packages

7. Next, install the Python virtual environment and associated dependencies.

$ sudo apt install python3-virtualenv python3-dev libpq-dev

Install Python Virtual Environment

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8. Next, create a directory where you will create a virtual environment.

$ mkdir pgadmin4 && cd pgadmin4

9. Then create the virtual environment as shown. Here, pgadmin4env is the name
of the virtual environment.

$ virtualenv pgadmin4env

Create Virtual Environment for pgAdmim4

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10. Once the virtual environment is in place, activate it as shown.
 $ source pgadmin4env/bin/activate

11. Then use the pip tool to install pgadmin4 as shown.

/ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin/pgadmin4/v4.30/pip/pgadmin4-4.3

Install PgAdmin4 in Linux Mint

12. Next, create a configuration file config_local.py.

$ sudo nano pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pgadmin4/

and add the lines below.

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

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 Create PgAdmin4 Configuration

13. To start the pgAdmin4 management tool, invoke the command:

$ python pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pgadmin4/pga
Or
./pgadmin4env/bin/pgadmin4&

Start PgAdmin4 Service

14. Finally, head over to your browser and browse the address shown.

http://127.0.0.1:5050

You will be prompted to set the master password, so proceed and set a strong
password and click the ‘Ok’ button.

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 Set PgAdmin4 Password

15. To make things easier, you can create an alias in the ~/.bashrc file as shown.

$ echo "alias startPg='~/pgAdmin4/venv/bin/python ~/pgAdmin4/

16. Next, update the bashrc file.

$ source ~/.bashrc

17. Finally, you can start the pgAdmin4 management tool by simply invoking the
startpg command.

$ startpg

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 Start PgAdmin4 Tool

Once again head over to your browser and log in to the PgAdmin4 interface. And
this concludes the installation of pgAdmin4 on Linux Mint.

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15 thoughts on “How to Install PostgreSQL

with pgAdmin4 on Linux Mint 20”

Thomas Tschoepke
December 2, 2021 at 12:23 am

This tutorial does not work anymore… Back to version 3 :-(

Reply

Thomas Tschoepke
December 2, 2021 at 12:32 am

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$ sudo curl
https://www.pgadmin.org/static/packages_pgadmin_org.pub | sudo
apt-key add
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb
https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin/pgadmin4/apt/focal
pgadmin4 main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgadmin4.list && apt
update'
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install pgadmin4-desktop #for desktop
OR
$ sudo apt install pgadmin4-web #for web

If web version:

$ sudo /usr/pgadmin4/bin/setup-web.sh

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Ami
February 27, 2022 at 7:29 am

With these steps I get:

E: The repository
'https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin/pgadmin4/apt/focal
pgadmin4 Release' does not have a Release file.
E: The repository 'http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt
ulyssa-pgdg Release' does not have a Release file.

Reply

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 Ravi Saive
December 2, 2021 at 11:26 am

@Thomas,

I have tried it on my Linux Mint 20, and it worked well. What error are you
getting on your side?

Reply

Thomas Tschoepke
December 3, 2021 at 4:35 pm

Can’t remember the error. But with the steps, I posted above one does
not need virtual environments and stuff…

The install is straight forward as any other package.

Reply

Jesus Reina
August 17, 2021 at 9:24 pm

pgadmin4env) root@usuario-Intel-powered-classmate-PC:~/pgadmin4#
python pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py
NOTE: Configuring authentication for DESKTOP mode.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/root/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site- 
packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py”, line 1771, in _execute_context
self.dialect.do_execute(
File “/root/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-
packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py”, line 717, in do_execute
cursor.execute(statement, parameters)
sqlite3.OperationalError: table version already exists

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Aga
June 20, 2021 at 12:28 am

Got the same issue, does anyone know how to uninstall all of this?

Reply

Agung Setiawan
June 9, 2021 at 12:19 am

Same issue

Reply

Uğur Volkan Göl

June 7, 2021 at 4:46 pm

Same issue for me too 

Reply

sven
February 8, 2021 at 1:20 am

Step 11: The package is no longer available, currently you can use Version
4.30:
pip install
https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin/pgadmin4/v4.30/pip/pgadmin4-4.30-
py3-none-any.whl

Step 13: Meanwhile in Version 4.30 there is a binary to start the server:
./pgadmin4env/bin/pgadmin4&

Reply

Ravi Saive
February 8, 2021 at 10:21 am

@Sven,

Thanks, corrected in the article as suggested by you…

Reply

LJ
April 6, 2021 at 9:35 am

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Can I ask that want version of python you used, because I got error like
this:

(pgadmin4env) lj@lj-Aspire-V3-471G:~/pgadmin4$ ./pgadmin4env/bin/

[1] 38587
(pgadmin4env) lj@lj-Aspire-V3-471G:~/pgadmin4$ NOTE: Configuring
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sql
line 1705, in _execute_context
self.dialect.do_execute(
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sql
line 691, in do_execute
cursor.execute(statement, parameters)
sqlite3.OperationalError: table version already exists

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "./pgadmin4env/bin/pgadmin4", line 5, in
from pgadmin4.pgAdmin4 import main
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pga
app = create_app()
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pga
db_upgrade(app)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pga
flask_migrate.upgrade(migration_folder)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flas
f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flas
command.upgrade(config, revision, sql=sql, tag=tag)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ale
script.run_env()
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ale
util.load_python_file(self.dir, "env.py")
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ale
module = load_module_py(module_id, path)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ale
spec.loader.exec_module(module)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pga
run_migrations_online()
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pga
context.run_migrations()
 File "", line 8, in run_migrations
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ale
self.get_context().run_migrations(**kw)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ale
step.migration_fn(**kw)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pga
op.create_table('version',
File "", line 8, in create_table
File "", line 3, in create_table
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ale
return operations.invoke(op)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ale
return fn(self, operation)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ale
operations.impl.create_table(table)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ale
self._exec(schema.CreateTable(table))
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ale
return conn.execute(construct, multiparams)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sql
return meth(self, multiparams, params, _EMPTY_EXECUTION_OPTS)
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sql
return connection._execute_ddl(
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sql
ret = self._execute_context(
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sql
self._handle_dbapi_exception(
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sql
util.raise_(
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sql
raise exception
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sql
self.dialect.do_execute(
File "/home/lj/pgadmin4/pgadmin4env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sql
cursor.execute(statement, parameters)
sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (sqlite3.OperationalError) table versio
[SQL:
CREATE TABLE version (
name VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
value INTEGER NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (name)
)

]
(Background on this error at: http://sqlalche.me/e/14/e3q8)
^C
[1]+ Exit 1 ./pgadmin4env/bin/pgadmin4
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Reply

Danny Hamshananth
April 16, 2021 at 12:07 pm

Hi LJ,

Got the same error as yours…

Tried to fix it by myself. But it didn’t worked.

My Linux Mint is 20.1 Ulyssa and the Python version is 3.8.5 (The
default one available with the OS).

I was managed to install and connect Postgres with Ravi Saive’s

guidelines (Author of this article).

But, I managed to connect PGAdmin3 (the version currently available in

Mint’s Software Manager) with the Postgres server.

But with one change..

1) Login to Server as Super User – sudo -u postgres psql postgres

2) Reset the super user’s password using – postgres=# ALTER USER

postgres PASSWORD 'root';

(https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7695962/postgresql-password-
authentication-failed-for-user-postgres)

Please share if you find out a solution for PGAdmin4

Reply

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 Ahmad
May 11, 2021 at 3:04 am

I have the same issue…

Reply

Aditya Saxena
June 6, 2021 at 2:00 pm

Same issue for me too

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