install-odoo-linux.md

Install odoo on linux

Tested on Ubuntu 18

2) Install Python, postgresql and needed modules

Python 2.7 and 3 come pre-installed but you'll need to add pip

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo apt-get install postgresql
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libssl-dev -y
sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev python-tk

4) install less compiler

$ sudo apt-get install npm
$ sudo npm install -g less less-plugin-clean-css

5) setup odoo environment

I recommend using virtualenvwrapper

$ mkvirtualenv odoo -p /path/to/python2.7  # generally /usr/bin/python2.7
$ which python  # should return:
/Users/<user>/.virtualenvs/odoo/bin/python

Use deactivate to get out of odoo environment, use workon odoo to activate the environment.

6) clone odoo

$ cd ~/projects
$ git clone https://github.com/odoo/odoo.git odoo

7) Install odoo requirements

$ cd odoo
$ git checkout 9.0
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

# we need to upgrade psycopg2
pip uninstall psycopg2
pip install --no-binary :all: psycopg2

You should now be able to start a simple odoo instance with ./odoo/odoo.py