Re: New installation woes

Hi Stephen,

Uninstall pgAdmin, look for /var/lib/pgadmin/ and /home/<user>/.pgadmin/
directories and remove them for a clean uninstall.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM Stephen Davies <sdavies(at)sdc(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:

> On 28 October 2025 7:27:44 pm ACDT, Aditya Toshniwal <
> aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> >Hi Stephen,
> >
> >Did you have any existing installation? It will not setup again if there
> is
> >any existing config data available.
> >
> >On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM Stephen Davies <sdavies(at)sdc(dot)com(dot)au>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I have just installed pgAdmin4 V9.9.1 on my Rocky Linux 9 laptop using
> dnf.
> >> The install looked to be successful but when I fire up pgAdmin4 in
> >> either desktop or web mode, it wants an email address and password.
> >> The installation did not include /usr/pgadmin4/bin/setup-pgadmin.sh and
> >> /usr/pgadmin4/bin/setup-web.sh did not create an account.
> >> No known combination of email and password is accepted.
> >>
> >> How do I get past square one?
> >>
> >> Cheers and thanks,
> >> Stephen
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> I tried installing back in July but due to issues there and elsewhere,
> wound up uninstalling and reinstalling pgAdmin.
> If, as you suggest, there are bits left over, what can I do to
> recover/destroy them?
> I am not clear as to what "the email associated with your account" means.
> Which account? If I have multiple emails on the same server, does it
> matter which one I use?
> If Postresql is on one machine and pgAdmin is on another, is anything
> different?
>
>
>

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Thanks,
Aditya Toshniwal
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