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PostgreSQL and pgAdmin4 installation on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

PgAdmin4 is an open source PostgreSQL management tool 

designed for multiple PostgreSQL database versions. It is a 

tool  written in python and jquery and can be installed on 

Windows, Mac, and Linux. It provides multiple deployment

models, can be installed as a desktop application or a server 

application running behind the webserver such as Apache2.


We're going to install and configure  PgAdmin4 in  'Server Mode' on Ubuntu 

18.04 server. 


Pre-requisites:


root user / sudo  access. 



PostgreSQL installation on Ubuntu 18.04 Server


To install the PostgreSQL database from the official repository, add the Postgres

 key and repository by running following commands


wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc \ 

| sudo apt-key add -


sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ `lsb_release -cs`-

pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'



Update the system

sudo apt update



Install PostgreSQL and its dependent repositories

 sudo apt -y install postgresql postgresql-contrib



Once the installation is complete login with default user named as

"postgres" and run psql command

from command line


su - postgres

psql



Now add new password to the default postgres user using following command as 






Pgadmin4 installation from Repository 



1. Adding postgreSQL repository (Downloading the key first)  


Download the key and add the repository using following commands:


wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc \ 

| sudo apt-key add -


sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ `lsb_release -cs`

-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'




2. Installation of Pgadmin4 


update the system if not done already 


sudo apt update


sudo apt install pgadmin4 pgadmin4-apache2 -y



you can add your own email address and password























Once the installation is complete , you can access the Pgadmin4 

tool from application finder.

















































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