Ubuntu Installation Steps (Tested with ubuntu 14.04 64bit and pgmodeler-0.8.1-alpha)

[sgon00]

It took me half a day to figure out how to install and compile pgmodeler in my ubuntu 14.04 64bit OS. I met many problems including failure to install qt5-default and many compilation errors. I think it's better to share my installation steps with others so they don't need to go through my pain.

My Environment: ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit and pgmodeler-0.8.1-alpha.

Update Your Ubuntu System

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Install Dependencies

I assume you have already installed and setup _postgresql server_.

Install qt5 framework:

$ sudo apt-get install qt5-default

If you meet unmet dependencies error by running the above command, you may need to install libgles2-mesa-dev manually first. I opened a bug for this issue.

Install Other dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install libpq-dev libxml2-dev qttools5-dev-tools clang qt5-image-formats-plugins libqt5svg5

Untar The Source Code and Modify linuxdeploy.sh Installation Script

$ tar -xzvf pgmodeler-0.8.1-alpha.tar.gz

It's VERY IMPORTANT to rename the directory name. The directory name has to be the same as pgmodeler.pro, otherwise qmake will report USAGE error:

$ mv -i pgmodeler-0.8.1-alpha pgmodeler
$ cd pgmodeler

Modify linuxdeploy.sh Installation Script as follows:

$ diff linuxdeploy.sh linuxdeploy-ubuntu.sh 
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>   DEP_PLUGINS_ROOT="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5"
120,128c121,130
<   QT_LIBS="libQt5DBus.so.5 \
<            libQt5PrintSupport.so.5 \
<            libQt5Widgets.so.5 \
<            libQt5Network.so.5 \
<            libQt5Gui.so.5 \
<            libQt5Core.so.5 \
<            libicui18n.so.5* \
<            libicuuc.so.5* \
<            libicudata.so.5*"

---
>   QT_LIB_ROOT="/x86_64-linux-gnu"
>   QT_LIBS="$QT_LIB_ROOT/libQt5DBus.so.5 \
>            $QT_LIB_ROOT/libQt5PrintSupport.so.5 \
>            $QT_LIB_ROOT/libQt5Widgets.so.5 \
>            $QT_LIB_ROOT/libQt5Network.so.5 \
>            $QT_LIB_ROOT/libQt5Gui.so.5 \
>            $QT_LIB_ROOT/libQt5Core.so.5 \
>            $QT_LIB_ROOT/libicui18n.so.5* \
>            $QT_LIB_ROOT/libicuuc.so.5* \
>            $QT_LIB_ROOT/libicudata.so.5*"
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<    cp $QT_ROOT/plugins/$plug $DEP_PLUGINS_DIR/$pdir >> $LOG 2>&1

---
>    cp $DEP_PLUGINS_ROOT/plugins/$plug $DEP_PLUGINS_DIR/$pdir >> $LOG 2>&1

Compile The Source Code

Since I modified the installation script, I changed the script name:

$ ./linuxdeploy-ubuntu.sh

Run The Program

$ cd build/opt/pgmodeler/
$ ./start-pgmodeler.sh

Finish.

[COLABORATI]

Thank you very much! Now, as the compile works, I feel motivated to dig deeper into this software. This should be added to the install instructions wiki page.

[nickguletskii]

No need to do any modifications to linuxdeploy.sh. Just add the -no-qt-libs flag!

[SteveViss]

Thanks for this doc... pretty clear ! Tested on Ubuntu 15.10 and pgmodeler-0.8.1

[lucas85cunha]

--> Someone, what I'm missing?
pgModeler Linux deployment script
PostgreSQL Database Modeler Project - pgmodeler.com.br
Copyright 2006-2016 Raphael A. Silva raphael@pgmodeler.com.br

[Deploying version: 0.8.2-beta1
Cleaning previous compilation...
Running qmake...

** Failed to execute qmake with arguments '-r -spec linux-clang PREFIX=/opt/pgmodeler BINDIR=/opt/pgmodeler PRIVATEBINDIR=/opt/pgmodeler PRIVATELIBDIR=/opt/pgmodeler/lib LANGDIR=/opt/pgmodeler/lang SAMPLESDIR=/opt/pgmodeler/samples SCHEMASDIR=/opt/pgmodeler/schemas PLUGINSDIR=/opt/pgmodeler/plugins CONFDIR=/opt/pgmodeler/conf DOCDIR=/opt/pgmodeler SHAREDIR=/opt/pgmodeler TEMPDIR=/opt/pgmodeler/tmp']

--> And the script stopped.

[eggmatters]

I kept getting comilation errors "usr/lib/postgresql/9.5/lib/libpq.so not found"
For ubuntu, This was located in: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpq.so.

In the installation wiki Update the directions for /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpq.pc to the following:

prefix=/usr
libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
includedir=${prefix}/include/postgresql

if not installed, run sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

[gescobedo]

@lucas85cunha maybe you should check log files, in my case I missed to install svg library

[yalopov]

@gescobedo Hi, how did you solve svg error? i tried installing libqt5svg5 package but it doesn't works

Nevermind, installing libqt5svg5-dev solved it.

[gescobedo]

@hades check the log file And make sure that the libraries are in the right path the installer should output all the things that are failing to run