Re: Packaging pgAdmin 4

True but they're usually out-of-date.

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 2:09 PM Chuck Davis <cjgunzel(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Have you checked your distro repositories? The distro I use ships pgAdmin
> together with the latest and previous versions of postgresql.
>
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 10:52 AM Blake McBride <blake1024(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I've had ongoing difficulties installing pgAdmin 4. These difficulties
>> have to do with the way pgAdmin is packaged and distributed.
>>
>> For example, I use LinuxMint and Manjaro. The pgAdmin distributions
>> support neither. Although Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu, lsb_release -cs
>> returns a value not usable by pgAdmin's distribution system. I had to
>> tweak internal files to get it to work.
>>
>> I'd like to suggest using snap, flatpack, or AppImage. Using one of
>> these, pgAdmin would be trivial to install on nearly any distro and on
>> nearly any version of those distros. Secondly, you'd have to maintain far
>> fewer builds.
>>
>> The only negative to using one of these is that the installations would
>> be a bit larger. This is a very small penalty to get the portable and
>> convenience these package managers provide.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Blake McBride
>>
>>