How to install Erpnext on Ubuntu

In this blog, we are going to learn how to install ERPNext on the Ubuntu server.

First, we will create a new user and provide sudo access to it, we will use this user for all the ERPNext-related operations. We are creating a user “webkul” you can give it any name accordingly.

sudo adduser webkul
usermod -aG sudo webkul

After that switch to the new user.

su webkul
cd /home/webkul

Before installing ERPNext we need to install other packages which are required for Erpnext.

Git

sudo apt-get install git

Python

sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3.10-dev python3-setuptools python3-pip python3-distutils

Python Virtual Environment

sudo apt-get install python3.10-venv

Software Properties Common

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

MariaDB (database)

sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client

Redis Server

sudo apt-get install redis-server

Other Packages

sudo apt-get install xvfb libfontconfig wkhtmltopdf

MySQL database development files

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

Now Configure the MariaDB Server by running the following command.

sudo mysql_secure_installation

(When you run this command, the server will show the following prompts.)

* Enter current password for root: (Enter your SSH root user password)
* Switch to unix_socket authentication [Y/n]: Y
* Change the root password? [Y/n]: Y
(It will ask you to set new MySQL root password at this step. This can be different from the SSH root user password.)
* Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
* Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: N
* Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Y
* Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y

Now edit the MySQL config file as below.

sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Add the following content to it.

[mysqld]

character-set-client-handshake = FALSE

character-set-server = utf8mb4

collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci

[mysql]

default-character-set = utf8mb4

Now restart the DB server

sudo service mariadb restart

CURL

sudo apt install curl

Node

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash

source ~/.profile

nvm install 16.15.0

NPM

sudo apt-get install npm

Yarn

sudo npm install -g yarn

Frappe Bench (Bench is a CLI tool to manage Frappe apps)

sudo pip3 install frappe-bench

Initialize Frappe Bench

bench init --frappe-branch version-14 frappe-bench

Switch to Frappe Bench directory

cd frappe-bench

Create a New Site

(A site is required in ERPNext.)

bench new-site demo

bench use demo

Now Install ERPNext

bench get-app --branch version-14 erpnext

bench --site demo install-app erpnext

bench start

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