Dear PgAdmin4 maintainers, I wanted to install PgAdmin4 on my Fedora 24 system. I want to use it in standalone mode, as a desktop application, essentially as a replacement for PgAdmin3.
I've already installed the PGDG 9.6 repository RPM because I've upgraded to Postgresql 9.6, and I've thought that the pgadmin4 RPMs from that repo would work. Unfortunately the documentation on the official site (https://www.pgadmin.org/download/linux4.php) merely pointed me to this repository but didn't tell which packages I need. I installed all that seemed relevant (pgadmin4.x86_64, pgadmin4-web.noarch, pgadmin4-docs.noarch) However, these packages seem half-finished at best, as I've encountered several problems. - No "pgadmin4" or similar binary was placed in any directory in $PATH. - Looking at the contents of the packages, I've found a binary at /usr/pgadmin4-1.0/runtime/pgAdmin4, however, trying to run this manually results in a Fatal Error dialog box that says "Failed to locate pgAdmin4.py, terminating server thread", then (sometimes) a segfault. - From the output of strace it turned out that this binary looks for this pgAdmin4.py at / and /usr/pgadmin4-1.0/runtime, but not at the correct /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pgadmin4-web, even though there is an ini file next to the binary, containing this location. (The ini file is never accessed, though). - The .desktop file supplied by the package is corrupt. It contains Exec==/usr/bin/python3 /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pgadmin4- web/pgAdmin4.py instead of Exec=... After fixing this error by hand, the icon appears in the system's Application menu, but it doesn't appear to start anything. In any case, shouldn't it execute the runtime binary instead of the web server? - So I've tried to run the command in the above Exec line manually. It printed an error message about config_local.py missing and exited. So I've tried creating a config_local.py by copying config_distro.py. (https://www.pgadmin.org/docs4/1.x/desktop_deployment.html mentions this file, but with a notice that the steps described there shouldn't be necessary for normal users.) After that it appeared to run, instructing me to point my browser at localhost:5050, at which location I was greeted by the shiny new interface. So at this point I have a desktop application that doesn't work and a half-baked way to start the interface in the browser, which I don't want to do. And none of the workarounds described above should be necessary anyway: I would've expected that after installing the RPM I'd have an application that works out of the box. best regards, Peter Juhasz -- Sent via pgadmin-support mailing list (pgadmin-support@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-support
