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Ep19Sc0NGE

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Registered: 2025-06-10

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can't install pgAdmin4 desktop

Hi, I need your help! I'm trying to install pgAdmin4 desktop version on my Arch system. I am getting

libfakeroot internal error: payload not recognized!

while building package for pgadmin4-server (which is required by pgadmin4-desktop) using

makepkg -si

command. Also, I've tried to install pgadmin4 using these 2 commands:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pgadmin4-py.git

, and

cd pgadmin4-py/ && makepkg -si --noconfirm

, but continue to get the same error. I don't understand where is the problem. Would be grateful for your help.

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,210

Re: can't install pgAdmin4 desktop

Hi, I need your help! I'm trying to install pgAdmin4 desktop version on my Arch system. I am getting

libfakeroot internal error: payload not recognized!

This is completely harmless and you can only see that if the package actually finished compiling successfully. What is the actual issue you have?

Ep19Sc0NGE

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Registered: 2025-06-10

Posts: 4

Re: can't install pgAdmin4 desktop

I can't finish compiling, because this error appears and compiling goes into a loop of these errors and I need to stop it myself by pressing Ctrl + c

BS86

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Registered: 2022-11-03

Posts: 78

Re: can't install pgAdmin4 desktop

not a solution to your original problem but maybe an alternative: I completely replaced pgAdmin with dbeaver which is available in the Repo. It's a lot more userfriendly and doesn't have the problems that pgAdmin 4 has.

Last edited by BS86 (Yesterday 08:11:36)

WorMzy

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Re: can't install pgAdmin4 desktop

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

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Re: can't install pgAdmin4 desktop

It seems pgadmin4-server doesn't play nice with python 3.13 .
Check the comments on its aur page.

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arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,210

Re: can't install pgAdmin4 desktop

I can't finish compiling, because this error appears and compiling goes into a loop of these errors and I need to stop it myself by pressing Ctrl + c

I repeat: If you are seeing those messages it is *already* finished compiling. In fact, the pgadmin4-server package doesn't do any compilation, just repackaging, so it is absolutely impossible to get a compilation error. You just need to be a bit more patient until the repackaging finishes.