Odoo: Odoo is a web-based opensource ERP software \u00a0which allows you to manage your business with ease. Odoo offers various business management applications such as Sales management, Project management, Human Resource Management, Point of Sales and the list goes on. But before you can access such useful apps you will have to get it installed on a web server or a system. Installing Odoo on Ubuntu can be sometimes complex for a newbie. This blog will guide you in installing Odoo on Ubuntu starting from Odoo 7 to the latest release of Odoo 10 on Ubuntu 14.04 and above.<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get update<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/i>Step 2: Creating an Odoo user<\/h3>\n<\/div>\nThe next step is to create a system user which will own the application Odoo. It is not mandatory to create a new user, you can use your current system user as well. Although it is the recommended step to create a new user for Odoo. We can create a new user “odoo” and provide a home directory for it via command below.
\nsudo adduser --system --home=\/opt\/odoo --group odoo<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/i>Step 3: Installing and Setting up\u00a0PostgreSQL<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\nInstall PostgreSQl with:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get install postgresql<\/code><\/p>\nOnce the PostgreSQL is installed, next we setup a new PostgreSQL user for our application. This user will be used for making all the database interaction form the Odoo.<\/p>\n
sudo su - postgres<\/code><\/p>\ncreateuser --createdb --username postgres --no-createrole --no-superuser --pwprompt odoo<\/code><\/p>\nafter running this command you will be asked for a password and then a confirmation of that<\/p>\n
Enter password for new role: *****<\/p>\n
Enter it again:*****<\/p>\n
Then finally exist the PostgreSQL by typing the command:<\/p>\n
exit<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/i>Step 4: Installing Python and other dependent libraries<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\nFirst installing the Python dependencies for Odoo:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get install python-cups python-dateutil python-decorator python-docutils python-feedparser python-gdata python-geoip python-gevent python-imaging python-jinja2 python-ldap python-libxslt1 python-lxml python-mako python-mock python-openid python-passlib python-psutil python-psycopg2 python-pybabel python-pychart python-pydot python-pyparsing python-pypdf python-reportlab python-requests python-simplejson python-tz python-unicodecsv python-unittest2 python-vatnumber python-vobject python-werkzeug python-xlwt python-yaml python-setuptools python-babel python-reportlab-accel python-zsi python-openssl python-egenix-mxdatetime python-unittest2 python-mock python-docutils lptools make python-psutil python-paramiko poppler-utils python-pdftools antiword<\/code><\/p>\nNext is to install\u00a0Less CSS via nodejs. we will start with installing npm:<\/p>\n
apt-get install -y npm<\/code><\/p>\nIn later debian (>jessie) and ubuntu (>14.04) we may need to add a symlink as npm packages call node but debian calls the binary nodejs<\/p>\n
sudo ln -s \/usr\/bin\/nodejs \/usr\/bin\/node<\/code><\/p>\nsudo npm install -g less<\/code><\/p>\nsudo apt-get install node-less<\/code><\/p>\nOnce all the packages are installed we are ready to proceed with installing Odoo server<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n<\/i>Step 5 : Installing Odoo server from Odoo source hosted on Github<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\nMake sure you have GIT installed on your system and if not then install with the simple command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get install git<\/code><\/p>\nAfter installing the the GIT we will clone the Odoo Source in the home directory of the odoo user we created earlier.<\/p>\n
sudo su - odoo -s \/bin\/bash<\/code><\/p>\nWhile cloning the branch from github you can specify the branch you want to clone. For instance we are cloning Odoo 10 branch from the repository<\/p>\n
git clone https:\/\/www.github.com\/odoo\/odoo --depth 1 --branch 10.0 --single-branch .<\/code><\/p>\nYou can use the same command to install any previous versions as well just by changing the –branch 10.0 parameter to the odoo version you wish to install.<\/p>\n
This may take some time depending upon your internet connectivity. Once the branch is cloned exit the odoo user by typing command<\/p>\n
exit<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/i>Step 6: Installing Wkhtmltopdf<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\nOdoo uses wkhtmltopdf to convert the html reports into pdf format. But all the versions of wkhtmltopdf does not support odoo. Here is the process to install the supported version for a system with 64 bit architecture. First download the package for installation:<\/p>\n
wget http:\/\/download.gna.org\/wkhtmltopdf\/0.12\/0.12.1\/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb<\/code><\/p>\nOnce the package is downloaded install it and copy the files accordingly:<\/p>\n
dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb<\/code><\/p>\nsudo cp \/usr\/local\/bin\/wkhtmltopdf \/usr\/bin<\/code>
\nsudo cp \/usr\/local\/bin\/wkhtmltoimage \/usr\/bin<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/i>Step 7: Odoo Server configuration<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\nWe have installed all the dependencies now and we are all set to configure the Odoo Server, For this we will first create the directory\u00a0for storing logs of Odoo server\u00a0and assigning proper ownership to\u00a0the directory:<\/p>\n
sudo mkdir \/var\/log\/odoo<\/code><\/p>\nsudo chown odoo:root \/var\/log\/odoo<\/code><\/p>\nNext is to create the configuration file for odoo server. Odoo application will use these configuration to run so fill in the configuration as per your requirements. We will first create a configuration file and specify\u00a0the configurations:<\/p>\n
sudo nano \/etc\/odoo-server.conf<\/code><\/p>\nA sample configuration file looks like this:<\/p>\n
[options]\r\n; This is the password that allows database operations:\r\n; admin_passwd = admin\r\ndb_host = False\r\ndb_port = False\r\ndb_user = odoo\r\nlogfile = \/var\/log\/odoo\/odoo-server.log\r\naddons_path = \/opt\/odoo\/addons,\/opt\/odoo\/odoo\/addons<\/pre>\nOnce the configration file is create we will set the ownership rights<\/p>\n
sudo chown odoo: \/etc\/odoo-server.conf<\/code>
\nsudo chmod 640 \/etc\/odoo-server.conf<\/code><\/p>\nOnce the configuration is created last step is to create a boot script which we will use to start or stop the odoo server.<\/p>\n
sudo nano \/etc\/init.d\/odoo-server<\/code><\/p>\nA script to start or stop Odoo is already available at path “\/opt\/odoo\/debian\/init” but since we have installed the odoo at path \/opt\/odoo we need to make some minor changes in this script file for the parameter “DAEMON”<\/p>\n
Here is how the file will look like after the modification.<\/p>\n
#!\/bin\/sh\r\n\r\n### BEGIN INIT INFO\r\n# Provides: odoo-server\r\n# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog\r\n# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog\r\n# Should-Start: $network\r\n# Should-Stop: $network\r\n# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5\r\n# Default-Stop: 0 1 6\r\n### END INIT INFO\r\n\r\nPATH=\/bin:\/sbin:\/usr\/bin\r\nDAEMON=\/opt\/odoo\/odoo-bin\r\nNAME=odoo-server\r\nDESC=odoo-server\r\nUSER=odoo\r\nCONFIGFILE=\"\/etc\/odoo-server.conf\"\r\nPIDFILE=\/var\/run\/$NAME.pid\r\n\r\n# Additional options that are passed to the Daemon.\r\nDAEMON_OPTS=\"-c $CONFIGFILE\"\r\n\r\n[ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0\r\n[ -f $CONFIGFILE ] || exit 0\r\n\r\ncheckpid() {\r\n [ -f $PIDFILE ] || return 1\r\n pid=`cat $PIDFILE`\r\n [ -d \/proc\/$pid ] && return 0\r\n return 1\r\n}\r\n\r\ncase \"${1}\" in\r\n start)\r\n echo -n \"Starting ${DESC}: \"\r\n\r\n start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \\\r\n --chuid ${USER} --background --make-pidfile \\\r\n --exec ${DAEMON} -- ${DAEMON_OPTS}\r\n\r\n echo \"${NAME}.\"\r\n ;;\r\n\r\n stop)\r\n echo -n \"Stopping ${DESC}: \"\r\n\r\n start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \\\r\n --oknodo\r\n\r\n echo \"${NAME}.\"\r\n ;;\r\n\r\n restart|force-reload)\r\n echo -n \"Restarting ${DESC}: \"\r\n\r\n start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \\\r\n --oknodo\r\n \r\n sleep 1\r\n\r\n start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \\\r\n --chuid ${USER} --background --make-pidfile \\\r\n --exec ${DAEMON} -- ${DAEMON_OPTS}\r\n\r\n echo \"${NAME}.\"\r\n ;;\r\n\r\n *)\r\n N=\/etc\/init.d\/${NAME}\r\n echo \"Usage: ${NAME} {start|stop|restart|force-reload}\" >&2\r\n exit 1\r\n ;;\r\nesac\r\n\r\nexit 0<\/pre>\nNow we need to change the ownership and make this script executable<\/p>\n