Re: pgadmin4 - which python

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 10:35 AM Egon Frerich <egon(at)frerich(dot)eu> wrote:

>
> Hi Dave,
>
> many thanks.
>
> I didn't build Python 3.8 myself. Mint put the program python3.8 into
> /usr/bin. So my settings should work.
>

It's not the executable that matters - it's the prefix that's used when
Python was configured, which would have been /usr on a typical Linux
distro's standard package.

>
> With "export" (not declare) the environment variable is found. Now I get:
>
> > thomas(at)Epsil192:~/Downloads/pgadmin4/pgadmin4-4.27/runtime$ export
> PGADMIN_PYTHON_DIR=/usr/
> > thomas(at)Epsil192:~/Downloads/pgadmin4/pgadmin4-4.27/runtime$ qmake
> > Project MESSAGE: ==================================
> > Project MESSAGE: Configuring the pgAdmin 4 runtime.
> > Project MESSAGE: ==================================
> > Project MESSAGE: Qt version: 5.12.8
> > Project MESSAGE: Platform: Linux
> > Project MESSAGE: Python executable: /usr//bin/python3
> > Project MESSAGE: Python version: 3.8 (38)
> > Project ERROR: No suitable python-config could be found in /usr//bin.
> > thomas(at)Epsil192:~/Downloads/pgadmin4/pgadmin4-4.27/runtime$
>
> Python 3.8 ist found. But why should there python-config?
>

Because that's used to figure out where all the different parts of the
installation can be found. On most Linux distros, there will be a
python3-devel or python3-dev or similar package that will include that.

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