Re: installation not working for Ubuntu 21.10 impish

Hi

On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 05:22, Garrett Simpson <elgaricimo(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Doing more research...CAME UP WITH A WORK AROUND! But I definitely think
> that pgadmin4 just doesn't work with Ubuntu 21.10 out of the box. Dave,
> can you confirm?
>

No, I can't. The test I did yesterday was on a brand new, fresh
installation of Ubuntu 21.10. I installed it, logged in, and then copied
the commands straight from your email and it worked perfectly.

>
> TLDR: Need to install python 3.8 for pgadmin to work with Ubuntu 21.10.
> Easiest way to do this is via the deadsnakes ppa and some temporary
> changing of the main repos to point at bionic.
>

Except that pgAdmin builds for Ubuntu 21.10 are built against Python 3.9,
the default for Impish:

dpage(at)ubuntu:~$ grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 21.10"
dpage(at)ubuntu:~$ /usr/pgadmin4/venv/bin/python3 --version
Python 3.9.7

> The problem stems from the symlink being broken. If I check out the
> directory housing the python3 symlink that the environment is using...
>
> ~$ cd /usr/pgadmin4/venv/bin
> /usr/pgadmin4/venv/bin$ ls -l
>
> I see the following 2 symlinks are broken:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Feb 7 11:20 python -> python3
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 7 11:20 python3 -> /usr/bin/python3.8
>

Yet I see:

dpage(at)ubuntu:/usr/pgadmin4/venv/bin$ ls -l
total 84
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1893 Feb 7 08:12 activate
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 842 Feb 7 08:12 activate.csh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1982 Feb 7 08:12 activate.fish
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8834 Feb 7 08:12 Activate.ps1
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 227 Feb 7 08:12 alembic
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 235 Feb 7 08:12 chardetect
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 244 Feb 7 08:12 easy_install
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 244 Feb 7 08:12 easy_install-3.9
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 228 Feb 7 08:12 email_validator
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 222 Feb 7 08:12 flask
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 227 Feb 7 08:12 mako-render
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 235 Feb 7 08:12 pip
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 235 Feb 7 08:12 pip3
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 235 Feb 7 08:12 pip3.9
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 236 Feb 7 08:12 pybabel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Feb 7 08:20 python -> python3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 7 08:20 python3 -> /usr/bin/python3.9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Feb 7 08:20 python3.9 -> python3
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 235 Feb 7 08:12 qr
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 230 Feb 7 08:12 sqlformat
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 232 Feb 7 08:12 sshtunnel
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 222 Feb 7 08:12 wheel

It seems pretty clear to me that you've somehow installed a build of
pgAdmin for an older version of Ubuntu, one which uses Python 3.8. Based on
what we currently support, that can only be Ubuntu 20.04 as that's the only
Ubuntu or Debian build that uses Python 3.8.

What is in /etc/os-release on your system, and what is the output of the
command:

lsb_release -cs

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