Install OpenERP Odoo 8 on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS

Step 1. Log as root user and update system

Open Terminal Window

2.      Enter below command for root access, and after entering it ask for root password.

sudo /bin/bash

[sudo] password for user : (Enter your root password)

3.      Now make sure your server has all the latest versions & patches by     doing an update:

sudo apt-get update

           

Now we’re ready to start the Odoo install.

Step 2. Create the Odoo user that will own and run the application

1.        Create odoo user and installation directory by below command

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

/opt/odoo, this is where the OpenERP server code will reside and is created automatically by the command above

      Now we check odoo user by below command

     sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash

When you have done what you need you can leave the odoo user’s shell by typing below command and back to root shell.

Exit

Step 3. Install and configure the database server, PostgreSQL

•          Install Postgresql by below command

 sudo apt-get install postgresql  

•        For configure the Odoo user on postgres, We require postgres shell by below command

        sudo su - postgres

•      Now create a new database user. This is so Odoo has access rights to connect to PostgreSQL and to create and drop databases.

[Remember what your choice of password is here; you will need it later on]

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

Enter password for new role: ********
Enter it again: ********

• Finally exit from the postgres user account by below command and return to root shell.

Exit

Step 4. Install the necessary Python libraries for the server

1. Give below command one by one to install python libraries

sudo apt-get install python-cups python-dateutil python-decorator python-docutils python-feedparser

sudo apt-get install python-gdata python-geoip python-gevent python-imaging python-jinja2 python-ldap python-libxslt1

sudo apt-get install python-lxml python-mako python-mock python-openid python-passlib python-psutil python-psycopg2

sudo apt-get install python-pybabel python-pychart python-pydot python-pyparsing python-pypdf python-reportlab python-requests

sudo apt-get install python-simplejson python-tz python-unicodecsv python-unittest2 python-vatnumber python-vobject

sudo apt-get install python-werkzeug python-xlwt python-yaml wkhtmltopdf

Step 5. Install the Odoo server from git

1. First we require to install Git by below command

sudo apt-get install git

2. Now For clone odoo from git we require Odoo shell access so we switch to odoo user by below command.

sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash

3.      Now Grab a copy of the most current Odoo 8 branch

[Note the “.” at the end of this command!]

git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo --depth 1 --branch 8.0 --single-branch .

           (This might take a little while depending on the speed of your Internet connection.)

                             

4.      Once it’s finished exit from the odoo user by below command and return to root shell.

 Exit

Step 6. Configure the Openerp application.

•      The default configuration file for the server (/opt/odoo/debian/openerp-server.conf) is actually very minimal and will, with only a small change work fine so we’ll copy that file to where we need it and change its ownership and permissions:

sudo cp /opt/odoo/debian/openerp-server.conf /etc/odoo-server.conf
sudo chown odoo: /etc/odoo-server.conf
sudo chmod 640 /etc/odoo-server.conf

The above commands make the file owned and writeable only by the odoo user and group and only readable by odoo and root.

•      To allow the odoo server to run initially, you should only need to change two lines in this file. Toward to the top of the file change the line

(For Edit configuration File use sudo nano /etc/odoo-server.conf)

db_password = False (Replace False with the same password you used back in step 3)

addons_path = /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/openerp/addons replace this with addons_path = /opt/odoo/addons instead.

One other line we have to add in the configuration file at last.

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

(Save Configuration File by Ctrl + X and it ask for save then Press Y and Enter)

•      Now we can start odoo server using odoo user

Change root shell to odoo shell by below command

sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash

start odoo server

/opt/odoo/openerp-server

If you end up with a few lines eventually saying OpenERP then you are all set.

If there are errors, you’ll need to go back and find out where the problem is.

•      Now enter CTL+C to stop the server and then exit

Step 7. Installing the boot script

1.      Now get script file from here and put it in /etc/init.d/ folder.

2.      Change permission and ownership of script file by below command.

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

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

3.      In the configuration file there’s an entry for the server’s log file. We need to create that directory first so that the server has somewhere to log to and also we must make it writeable by the openerp user:

sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo

sudo chown odoo:root /var/log/odoo

Step 8. Testing Odoo Server

1.      To start the Odoo server type:

sudo /etc/init.d/odoo-server start

or

service odoo-server start

2.      We can check odoo server log by below command

tail /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log

If there are any problems starting the server you need to go back and check. There’s really no point ploughing on if the server doesn’t start…

Odoo 8 New Database

If the log file looks OK, now point your web browser at the domain or IP address of your Odoo server (or localhost if you are on the same machine) and use port 8069. The url will look something like this:

http://IP_or_domain.com:8069