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Installing using pipx automatically installs it in a virtual environment for you. So basically just pipx install pgadmin4 instead of pip install pgadmin4. You might want to install pipx to do that.

I also had what appears to have been the same problem as @lzx3in, but the proposed fix by @friday13 didn't work for me. Maybe I did it wrong? Either way. I ended up making my own PKGBUILD that builds the application from source, rather than modifying a pre-built .deb archive. The PKGBUILD skips building some things I didn't need like documentation and an SBOM, but it works well enough for my needs.

I've attached the link just in case it's useful to anyone else.

https://github.com/maroider/arch-pkgs/tree/aecd4a058861a43d66a4941e5b2a1cfb932ed739/pgadmin4

I encountered the same problem as @lzx3in. According to this official document, a virtual environment is required. It seems that the error is originating from this or that the virtual environment has been created in the wrong directory.

https://www.pgadmin.org/download/pgadmin-4-python/ example

$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/pgadmin
$ sudo mkdir /var/log/pgadmin
$ sudo chown $USER /var/lib/pgadmin
$ sudo chown $USER /var/log/pgadmin
$ python3 -m venv pgadmin4
$ source pgadmin4/bin/activate
(pgadmin4) $ pip install pgadmin4

Can this issue be resolved in the PKGBUILD or upstream?

The pgAdmin 4 server could not be contacted:

pgAdmin Runtime Environment

Python Path: "/usr/pgadmin4/venv/bin/python3" Runtime Config File: "/home/lzx/.config/pgadmin4/config.json" Webapp Path: "/usr/pgadmin4/web/pgAdmin4.py" pgAdmin Command: "/usr/pgadmin4/venv/bin/python3 -s /usr/pgadmin4/web/pgAdmin4.py" Environment: • ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT: wayland

• HOME: /home/lzx

• LANG: en_US.UTF-8

• LOGNAME: lzx

• PATH: /home/lzx/.cargo/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl

• SHELL: /usr/bin/zsh

• USER: lzx

• XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: /run/user/1000

• DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS: unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus

• DEBUGINFOD_URLS: https://debuginfod.archlinux.org

• DESKTOP_SESSION: plasma

• DISPLAY: :1

• GTK2_RC_FILES: /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/lzx/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/lzx/.config/gtkrc-2.0

• GTK_RC_FILES: /etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/lzx/.gtkrc:/home/lzx/.config/gtkrc

• ICEAUTHORITY: /run/user/1000/iceauth_rVJEbY

• KDE_APPLICATIONS_AS_SCOPE: 1

• KDE_FULL_SESSION: true

• KDE_SESSION_UID: 1000

• KDE_SESSION_VERSION: 6

• MAIL: /var/spool/mail/lzx

• MOTD_SHOWN: pam

• OLDPWD: /home/lzx

• PAM_KWALLET5_LOGIN: /run/user/1000/kwallet5.socket

• PWD: /home/lzx

• QT_WAYLAND_RECONNECT: 1

• SESSION_MANAGER: local/home-desktop-arch-01:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1277,unix/home-desktop-arch-01:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1277

• WAYLAND_DISPLAY: wayland-0

• XAUTHORITY: /run/user/1000/xauth_yevQQg

• XDG_CONFIG_DIRS: /home/lzx/.config/kdedefaults:/etc/xdg

• XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: KDE

• XDG_MENU_PREFIX: plasma-

• XDG_SEAT: seat0

• XDG_SEAT_PATH: /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0

• XDG_SESSION_CLASS: user

• XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP: KDE

• XDG_SESSION_ID: 2

• XDG_SESSION_PATH: /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session1

• XDG_SESSION_TYPE: wayland

• XDG_VTNR: 1

• MANAGERPID: 1081

• INVOCATION_ID: 6582ed9a45a2400cbf38a756b1bb405f

• JOURNAL_STREAM: 9:12726

• SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID: 1312

• MEMORY_PRESSURE_WATCH: /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/plasma-plasmashell.service/memory.pressure

• MEMORY_PRESSURE_WRITE: c29tZSAyMDAwMDAgMjAwMDAwMAA=

• CHROME_DESKTOP: pgadmin4.desktop

• ORIGINAL_XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: KDE

• ELECTRON_ENABLE_SECURITY_WARNINGS: false

• GDK_BACKEND: wayland

• NO_AT_BRIDGE: 1

• PGADMIN_INT_PORT: 39447

• PGADMIN_INT_KEY: 7b441ed4-5958-47ae-a5b2-a995e74b42a9

• PGADMIN_SERVER_MODE: OFF

Total spawn time to start the pgAdmin4 server: 0.005 Sec Failed to launch pgAdmin4. Error: Error: spawn /usr/pgadmin4/venv/bin/python3 ENOENT

can you update this to latest version? thanks.

While cleaning up install, this comes in the terminal.

==> Tidying install...
  -> Removing libtool files...
  -> Purging unwanted files...
  -> Removing static library files...
  -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
readelf: Warning: Gap in build notes detected from 0xbbda to 0x6120f

helloooo could we please update to new major version 9

@PBhat, They have the download archive here: https://pgadmin-archive.postgresql.org/

I figure you can use this PKGBUILD script as a guide to set up the specific version that's compatible with your version of postgreSQL.

@MaximGun, You are right. But alas, with your help I can run pgadmin4, but this version of pgadmin4 cannot connect to postgres 8 / postgres 9 versions ! It expects replication_nodes, which are not available on PG8 / PG9.

Installing AUR package python312 will allow pgadmin to run successfully. It can be installed alongside the core python package.