Re: install pgAdmin4-desktop on Ubuntu without installing pgAdmin4-server

Hi

On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 at 16:25, richard coleman <rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Is there a way to install just pgadmin4-desktop on Ubuntu?
>
> Following the instructions here:
> https://www.pgadmin.org/download/pgadmin-4-apt/
>
> It states:
>
> # Install for both desktop and web modes:
> sudo apt install pgadmin4
>
>
> # Install for desktop mode only:
> sudo apt install pgadmin4-desktop
>
>
> # Install for web mode only:
> sudo apt install pgadmin4-web
>
>
> Unfortunately when I try to just install pgAdmin4-desktop as directed apt
> returns the following:
>
> The following additional packages will be installed:
> pgadmin4-server
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> pgadmin4-desktop pgadmin4-server
>
>
> Which makes the three seemingly disparate commands:
>
> - sudo apt install pgadmin4
> - sudo apt install pgadmin4-desktop
> - sudo apt install pgadmin4-web
>
>
> identicle, at least when trying to install *just* the desktop portion of
> pgAdmin4.
>
> How do I install *just* pgAdmin4-desktop?
>

The desktop package is just the Electron runtime and some supporting
code, along with a dependency on the server package. You need to have the
server package as that's 99.999% of the pgAdmin code.

The -web package is only needed if you want to run under a webserver, and
essentially just contains the required config files for doing so and
a dependency on the -server package.

--
Dave Page
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