It seems there is no Postgres App for Linux, are we Linux users supposed to rely on the command line tools or is there something specific a/A would like us to use ?
@kevin any insight on this would be helpful 
Thanks
Hey Harsh,
App Academy only supports MacOS, so as far as “something specific” they would like you to use, you are on your own. Shouldn’t be a problem though, the application does not do much more than provide an easy way for users to start up their PG server on a default port and connect to their database. Doing this through the command line is better practice anyway! 
You got this!
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Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I thought it’d be better to piggyback off this then to create an entirely new one.
I’m running into a similar problem. I’m trying to install all the requirements needed for the alpha course and I execute the following command:
~/.dotfiles/bin/install_requirements
After hitting enter a few times, I get the following error:
install_requirements failed: Postgresql not installed
After reading Kevin’s reponse up above, it seems like I might not need Postgresql? However, I’m unable to install the configuration files which is the next step. Quite possibly a result of not finishing the installation of all requirements?
Some help would be greatly appreciated!
Harsh,
Try running the following line to install Postgresql:
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
You may get some missing dependency errors. Go ahead and install the missing dependencies with sudo apt-get install <dependency-name>, then re-run the above line until it works.
Once installed you can try re-running the dotfiles.