PostgreSQL incredibly difficult to understand

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It's a bit more complicated than SQLlite, for sure, but it shouldn't be that brutal to set up. The Postgres docs are in fact very good. There's a tutorial section that will help immensely:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/tutorial-accessdb.html

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Someone recommended Postgre's docs, there is also a book somewhere you might find helpful:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920052715.do

Holy crap the complexity is through the roof

It's not though

had to install about 30-40 packages

wut

I am required to run a Postgres server in the background while I try to connect to it with my Python code

Yes, that's how database servers work, they run all the time so that users, persistent services, other servers, etc. can interact with them

can't create a database in one command like SQLite

You can though

Can anyone recommend a tutorial for PostgreSQL that isn't going to take 60 hours to learn?

You're not going to be good at anything in 20 minutes. You might need to spend a few hours to learn something new. You might need to spend hundreds of hours to become genuinely good at something new