On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:41 AM Egon Frerich <e...@frerich.eu> wrote:
> Am 03.11.20 um 11:27 schrieb Dave Page: > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:24 AM Egon Frerich <e...@frerich.eu > > <mailto:e...@frerich.eu>> wrote: > > > > I want to install pgadmin4 with Mint 19.3. and get this: > > > > > thomas@Epsil192:~/Downloads/pgadmin4/pgadmin4-4.27/runtime$ sudo > qmake > > > Project MESSAGE: ================================== > > > Project MESSAGE: Configuring the pgAdmin 4 runtime. > > > Project MESSAGE: ================================== > > > Project MESSAGE: Qt version: 5.12.8 > > > Project ERROR: The PGADMIN_PYTHON_DIR environment variable is not > > set. Please set it to a directory path under which Python 3.4 or > > later has been installed and try again. > > > thomas@Epsil192:~/Downloads/pgadmin4/pgadmin4-4.27/runtime$ echo > > $PGADMIN_PYTHON_DIR > > > /usr/lib/python3.8/ > > > > I don't understand why $PGADMIN_PYTHON_DIR is not found. > > > > > > Probably because you're running qmake under sudo, but the environment > > variable is set in your own session. > > > > There shouldn't be any need to run qmake under sudo. > > > > -- > > Dave Page > > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > > Twitter: @pgsnake > > > > EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com > > > > > Same result without 'sudo': > > > thomas@Epsil192:~/Downloads/pgadmin4/pgadmin4-4.27/runtime$ qmake > > Project MESSAGE: ================================== > > Project MESSAGE: Configuring the pgAdmin 4 runtime. > > Project MESSAGE: ================================== > > Project MESSAGE: Qt version: 5.12.8 > > Project ERROR: The PGADMIN_PYTHON_DIR environment variable is not set. > Please set it to a directory path under which Python 3.4 or later has been > installed and try again. > > thomas@Epsil192:~/Downloads/pgadmin4/pgadmin4-4.27/runtime$ echo > $PGADMIN_PYTHON_DIR > > /usr/lib/python3.8/ > > thomas@Epsil192:~/Downloads/pgadmin4/pgadmin4-4.27/runtime$ > Is your Python really installed in /usr/lib/python3.8, or is that just the libraries it includes? I would expect an installation in /usr to create that directory, which seems more in line with most distros. e.g. If you build Python 3.8 and install it to $INSTALLDIR, you'd end up with the python3.8 directory being in $INSTALLDIR/lib/python3.8 -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com