Easiest way to install Odoo 8 on Ubuntu 14.04 from GitHub

Easiest way to install Odoo 8 on Ubuntu 14.04 from GitHub

Odoo has been founded in 2005. Odoo thrives in a unique and fully open ecosystem combining the resources of its open source community, partner’s network and vendor. Odoo is moving into new territories, beyond ERP. Odoo is a suite of business apps, not only an ERP. 200,000 users are using one application only. To break this “one big block” image of traditional ERPs, they wanted a name that they can compose to create names for every standalone application.

Here is the EASIEST way to Install Odoo 8 on Ubuntu 14.04 from GitHub. You are 15 steps away from exploring Next Big Revolution: “Odoo 8″. Open the terminal and execute below commands step-by-step to achieve excellence.

Step 1

Update apt source list

sudo apt-get update

Step 2

Install Updates

sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 3

Install Python Dependencies for Odoo 8

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

Step 4

Install supporting packages for Odoo 8

sudo apt-get install gcc python-dev mc bzr python-setuptools python-babel python-feedparser python-reportlab-accel python-zsi python-openssl python-egenix-mxdatetime python-jinja2 python-unittest2 python-mock python-docutils lptools make python-psutil python-paramiko poppler-utils python-pdftools antiword 

Step 5

Install PostgreSQL and GIT

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3

Step 6

Create Database user for OpenERP Odoo

sudo su postgres

postgres@openerp-desktop:/$ createuser -s openerp

postgres@openerp-desktop:/$ createuser -s system_name

postgres@openerp-desktop:/$ exit

Step 7

Create Odoo user and group

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

Step 8

Download & Install Gdata

cd /opt/openerp

sudo wget http://gdata-python-client.googlecode.com/files/gdata-2.0.17.tar.gz

sudo tar zxvf gdata-2.0.17.tar.gz

sudo chown -R openerp: gdata-2.0.17

sudo -s

cd gdata-2.0.17/

python setup.py install

exit

Step 9

Get lastest Odoo 8 from github repositoryDownload the Zip file from URL : “https://github.com/odoo/odoo/tree/8.0″ . Open Folder by command

sudo su nautilus /opt/openerp

Now copy the unzip downloaded folder in opened window OR clone direct to the system from GitHub Repository by command :

git clone https://github.com/odoo/odoo.git --branch 8.0

sudo chown -R openerp: odoo-8.0

Step 10

Create folder for custom and test addons (OPTIONAL)

sudo mkdir custom-addons test-addons

sudo chown -R openerp: custom-addons

sudo chown -R openerp: test-addons

Step 11

Create Odoo Log File

sudo mkdir /var/log/openerp

sudo chown -R openerp:root /var/log/openerp

Step 12

Edit Odoo configuration file

sudo cp /opt/openerp/odoo-8.0/debian/openerp-server.conf /etc/openerp-server.conf

sudo chown openerp: /etc/openerp-server.conf

sudo gedit /etc/openerp-server.conf

#Copy and paste below content in config file , write correct addons paths

[options]

; This is the password that allows database operations:

admin_passwd = PASSWORD

db_host = False

db_port = False

db_user = odoo

db_password = False

addons_path = /opt/openerp/odoo-8.0/addons

;Log settings

logfile = /var/log/openerp/openerp-server.log

log_level = error

Step 13

Setup Odoo service file

sudo cp /opt/openerp/odoo-8.0/openerp-server /etc/init.d/openerp-server

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/openerp-server

sudo chown root: /etc/init.d/openerp-server

Step 14

Now Start Odoo Server

cd /opt/openerp/odoo

./openerp-server

Step 15

Go to web browser to access Odoo 8

http://localhost:8069

Following are the other extra commands to be used while installing and using OpenERP when unusual error occurred such as:

Error 1. “Address already in use “: Then check the port through

ps aux | grep openerp

locate openerp

kill -9 portno.

Error 2. “Module or dependency not found”: then install that through

sudo apt-get install name_dependency

Error 3. “ImportError No module named ‘requests’ or ‘openerp’” : then follow below commands

cd /opt/openerp/odoo

sudo python setup.py install

Now you can start exploring new OpenERP i.e Odoo 8. “Open Source is for Open Minds”. If you need any help or support ,kindly contact on below mentioned details.