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Odoo: Install Odoo 11 on Ubuntu 16.x

Odoo is a suite of business management software tools including, for example, CRM, e-commerce, billing, accounting, manufacturing, warehouse, project management, and inventory management. The Community version is a libre software, licensed under the GNU LGPLv3. [Wikipedia]

Steps to Install Odoo 11 on Ubuntu 16.04

Below are the steps to install Odoo 11 on your Ubuntu Server/Machine.

Let's begin.

Open the terminal and execute below commands step-by-step.

Step 1: Update apt source list

sudo apt-get update

Step 2: Install Updates

sudo apt-get -y upgrade

Note: The -y flag will confirm that we are agreeing for all items to be installed.

Step 3: Install Python Dependencies for Odoo 11

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Step 4: Install Dependencies Using pip3

pip3 install Babel decorator docutils ebaysdk feedparser gevent greenlet html2text
Jinja2 lxml Mako MarkupSafe mock num2words ofxparse passlib Pillow psutil
psycogreen psycopg2 pydot pyparsing PyPDF2 pyserial python-dateutil python-openid
pytz pyusb PyYAML qrcode reportlab requests six suds-jurko vatnumber vobject
Werkzeug XlsxWriter xlwt xlrd

Step 5: 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
sudo apt-get install node-less

Step 6: Install PostgreSQL 9.6+

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list

add a line for the repository

deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ xenial-pgdg main
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.6

Step 7: Create Database User for Odoo

sudo su postgres
cd
createuser -s odoo
createuser -s ubuntu_user_name
exit

Step 8: Create Odoo User and Group

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

Step 9: Install Gdata

cd /opt/odoo
sudo wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/a8/70/bd554151443fe9e89d9a934a7891aaffc63b9cb5c7d608972919a002c03c/gdata-2.0.18.tar.gz
sudo tar zxvf gdata-2.0.18.tar.gz
sudo chown -R odoo: gdata-2.0.18
sudo -s
cd gdata-2.0.18/
python setup.py install
exit

Step 10: Download Odoo 11

Go to the url : URL : “https://github.com/odoo/odoo/tree/11.0″ Download the Zipped File Transfer the file to /opt/odoo directory on server through ftp. or Follow the steps below

cd /opt/odoo
sudo apt-get install git
sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash
git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo --depth 1 --branch 11.0 --single-branch

Step 11: Create Odoo Log File

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

Step 12: Edit Odoo configuration file

sudo vim /etc/odoo.conf

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

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

Save and Exit the file. Now run the below command on terminal to grant ownership.

sudo chown odoo: /etc/odoo.conf

Step 13: WKHTMLTOPDF ( Supported Version 0.12.1 ) for Odoo

sudo wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin/wkhtmltoimage
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf

Step 14: Start Odoo Server

cd /opt/odoo/odoo
./odoo-bin

Step 15: Go to your web browser to access Odoo 11

http://localhost:8069

and Press Enter.

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