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By: Faslu Rahman

Step by Step to Install Odoo v10 on Ubuntu16.04 LTS

Technical Odoo 10

Introduction:

Odoo is an open-source all-in-one enterprise resource planning (ERP) application developed by Odoo S.A.  The new release of Odoo 10.0 is introducing many new features with great speed.

Odoo gives you endless possibilities. You can extend your business scope from CRM to E-commerce with Odoo. Also, you can customize Odoo to suit your business flow. I am sure you'll enjoy working Odoo.

 

How To:

Before we going through the steps of installation of Odoo, We can download and install a .deb package of Odoo. But it won't give you the full control over the installation. Also, it will make the customization/ modification difficult. So we are using a manual approach here.

We are using a clone of Odoo 10.0 branch from Odoo's GitHub repository. This will make things easier when it comes to the installation of updates and bug fixes.

 

Follow below steps to Install Odoo 10 on Ubuntu16.04 

Open your terminal and run these commands step by step, and feel the difference Odoo can do.

 

  • Step 1: Build Your Server

  • sudo apt-get install openssh-server fail2ban


    This is to make your server secure and to let you connect to the system remotely. If you have another method for this, Skip this one.


    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade

    This will make your server up-to-date with all the latest versions and patches.

    It is a good idea to restart your server after this.


  • Step 2: Create a user for Odoo

  • This system user is to own and run Odoo on your server. Login of this user will be disabled. We are going to place the source code of Odoo inside the home directory of this user.


    sudo adduser --system --home=/opt/odoo --group odoo


    Here I have put home directory as /opt/odoo. If you want to change the location, it is your choice. But, you’ll have to alter some of the configuration and instruction are given below.

    Don’t worry about how we can run Odoo with a system user that has no shell. The next command will help you.


    sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash


    This will switch the current login user of a terminal with Odoo user. Then you will be using /bin/bash shell. And your home directory will be /opt/odoo.

    Enter exit to leave odoo user

     

  • Step 3: Install and configure PostgreSQL (Database Server)


  • sudo apt-get install postgresql


    This command will install database server PostgreSQL on your server.

     

    Now we have to configure Odoo user in Postgres. To do this we need some privileges. For that, we will switch into Postgres user. To do so, run


    sudo su - postgres


    Now, create a database user for Odoo. So that odoo can delete, create and restore databases.

     

    createuser --createdb --username postgres --no-createrole --no-superuser --pwprompt odoo


    The system will ask you for a password. Don’t forget it. You'll need it later.


    Enter
    exit to leave postgres user


  • Step 4: Install Dependencies for Odoo

  • There are some Python packages odoo depends on. This command will

     

    sudo apt-get install python-dateutil python-docutils python-feedparser python-jinja2 python-ldap python-libxslt1 python-lxml python-mako python-mock python-openid python-psycopg2 python-psutil python-pybabel python-pychart python-pydot python-pyparsing python-reportlab python-simplejson python-tz python-unittest2 python-vatnumber python-vobject python-webdav python-werkzeug python-xlwt python-yaml python-zsi poppler-utils python-pip python-pypdf python-passlib python-decorator gcc python-dev mc bzr python-setuptools python-markupsafe python-reportlab-accel python-zsi python-yaml python-argparse python-openssl python-egenix-mxdatetime python-usb python-serial lptools make python-pydot python-psutil python-paramiko poppler-utils python-pdftools antiword python-requests python-xlsxwriter python-suds python-psycogreen python-ofxparse python-gevent


    for Odoo web dependencies

     

    sudo apt-get install -y npm
    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
    sudo npm install -g less less-plugin-clean-css


    for Odoo reports, Install wkhtmltopdf


    Here we are using 0.12.1 version of wkhtmltopdf.


    sudo wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb


    This will download wkhtmltopdf package for 64 bit system arch.


    Or download manually from http://nightly.odoo.com/extra/


    To install the package


    sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb


    To ensure wkhtmltopdf functions properly:


    sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin
    sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin

     

  • Step 5: Clone Odoo from its repository

  • First, We have to install Git.


    sudo apt-get install git


    Before we clone Odoo, we should switch to Odoo user


    sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash


    Now clone the latest code of Odoo from repo using git clone.


    git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo --depth 1 --branch 10.0 --single-branch .

    Note the '. ' at the end of the command. 

    This will download Odoo to /opt/odoo

    If you get a message like this

    “fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory.”

    remove the '. ' from command and try again. This time odoo code will be downloaded to /opt/odoo/odoo-10.0/.  In this case, you'll have to alter some of the configuration given below according to this directory path.


  • Step 6: Configuring Odoo application

  • ·    copy the configuration files that comes with odoo to a more convenient location


    sudo cp /opt/odoo/debian/odoo.conf /etc/odoo-server.conf

    ·    Modify the file using


     sudo nano /etc/odoo-server.conf


    Minimal of 'odoo-server.conf' file


    [options]
    ; This is the password that allows database operations:
    ; admin_passwd = admin
    db_host = False
    db_port = False
    db_user = odoo
    db_password = False
    addons_path = /opt/odoo/addons
    logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo.log

    in this configuration file
    ; admin_passwd = admin : this line currently commented. This is the password that allows database operations. Remove the preceding ';' to uncomment the line and change 'admin' to something more secure to make your Odoo more secure.

    db_host = False: This is used when you are using a different server for the database. Put your database server address in that case.

    db_port = False : Postgresql uses port no: 5432 as default. If you are running with a custom configuration, give the appropriate port number here.

    db_user = odoo : Name of the PostgreSQL user we created in step 3

    db_password = False: Change the FALSE to the db_user's password.
    addons_path = /opt/odoo/addons : This where Odoo addons lies. If you have any other add-ons in a different location, add that path to this line after a ','

    logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo.log : This is the path to odoo log file.


    By default odoo uses 8069 port, If you are planning to run odoo in a different port, add this line

    xmlrpc_port = <port no>


    ·    Change ownership and permission of Odoo.conf


    sudo chown odoo: /etc/odoo-server.conf
    sudo chmod 640 /etc/odoo-server.conf


    ·    We should create the path we mentioned for Odoo log in configuration file and set the Odoo user as its owner


    sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo
    sudo chown odoo:root /var/log/odoo

  • Step 7: Creating Odoo service

  • We have to create a systemd unit for Odoo So that it behaves like a service.


    Create a new file at /etc/systemd/system/odoo.service

     

    [Unit]
    Description=Odoo
    Documentation=http://www.odoo.com
    [Service]
    # Ubuntu/Debian convention:
    Type=simple
    User=odoo
    ExecStart=/opt/odoo/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo-server.conf
    [Install]
    WantedBy=default.target
     
    We need to change the permission and ownership of this file.
     
    sudo chmod 755 /etc/systemd/system/odoo.service
    sudo chown root: /etc/systemd/system/odoo.service

     

  • Step 8: Testing

  • start the Odoo server


    sudo systemctl start odoo.service


    check the log file


    sudo tail -f /var/log/odoo/odoo.log


  • Step 9: Automating startup and shutdown of Odoo

  • This will enable the Odoo to start and stop the server


    sudo systemctl enable odoo.service


  • Step 10: Access Odoo on your browser

  • Open a new browser window and enter http://<your_domain_or_IP_address>:8069 in the address bar

    If everything is working properly, you will redirect to Odoo's database creation page.

     

    Install-Odoo-10-on-Ubuntu-16-cybrosys
    Have a look at the following blog to explore more about Odoo 16 Install. Odoo 16 Install


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    3
    Comments

    Faslu Rahman

    @Hanshad There must be some extra spaces in your command. Please check

    15/08/2017

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    11:37PM

    Hanshad

    While clonig odoo by git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo --depth 1 --branch 10 .0 --single-branch . command it shows error as too many arguments. i am also trying without that '.' .

    14/08/2017

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    3:38AM

    Jesni

    Very useful blog

    04/08/2017

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    5:19AM



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