In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PgAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, PgAdmin is the leading graphical Open Source management, development, and administration tool for PostgreSQL.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation PgAdmin on a Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) server.
Prerequisites
- A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver).
- It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
- SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
- A
non-root sudo useror access to theroot user. We recommend acting as anon-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.
Install PgAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver
Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt-get commands in the terminal.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2. Install Dependencies Packages.
First, need to install the basic packages:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev libgmp3-dev virtualenv python-pip libpq-dev python-dev
Step 3. Create the virtual environment.
Create the virtual environment:
virtualenv .pgadmin4
Next, Activate the virtual environment:
cd .pgadmin4 source bin/activate
Step 4. Installing PGAdmin 4 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Use the following command to download the PgAdmin Python wheel:
wget https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin/pgadmin4/v3.1/pip/pgadmin4-3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Install PgAdmin 4 using the following command:
pip install pgadmin4-3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Step 5. Configure PGAdmin 4.
Write the SERVER_MODE = False in lib/python2.7/site-packages/pgadmin4/config_local.py to configure it to run in single-user mode:
echo "SERVER_MODE = False" >> lib/python2.7/site-packages/pgadmin4/config_local.py
Once you finished the configuration, use the following command to run PgAdmin 4:
python lib/python2.7/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py
Step 6. Access PgAdmin.
Once the installer finishes installing, it will show you the URL, Username, and Password. Just open that URL in a web browser and log in using the username and password.
http://your-ip-address:5050
Congratulations! You have successfully installed PgAdmin. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing PgAdmin in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official PgAdmin website.
