Home INSTALL ODOO 9 ON UBUNTU – STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL
In this tutorial we will showcase how to install Odoo 9 on your Ubuntu Server/Machine. As we all know that Odoo version 9 alpha has been released and soon the official launch of Odoo 9 will be announced in the forth quarter this year. This guide for installation will work on Ubuntu version 12.04 till 14.4. We have also added the FAQ section incase you face any issues you can email us on sale@globalteckz.com
You can download Odoo 9 by clicking on these links for Download odoo 9 for Linux or for Windows
Below are the steps to install odoo 9
Required Packages:
Before installation of odoo there are few required packages list that should be installed on linux/Ubuntu distribution before running Odoo Server.
Just copy and Paste the packages in the terminal
globalteckz@globalteckz:~$ apt-get install python-dateutil python-feedparser python-gdata python-ldap python-libxslt1 python-lxml python-mako python-openid python-psycopg2 python-pybabel python-pychart python-pydot python-pyparsing python-reportlab python-simplejson python-tz python-vatnumber python-vobject python-webdav python-werkzeug python-xlwt python-yaml python-zsi
globalteckz@globalteckz:~$ apt-get install python-dateutil python-feedparser
Some Other Required Packages
sudo apt-get install python-pyPdf python-docutils python-jinja2 python-psutil python-unittest2 python-decorator
To install the postgresql(latest 9.3 version) on linux/Ubuntu machine use the following steps stated below.
1. globalteckz@globalteckz:~$ sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3
once you have successfully install postgres on the machine your next steps should be to create a super user ‘openerp’ and assign role SUPERUSER to that user. You can do so from the following steps
2.globalteckz@globalteckz:~$ sudo su postgres
[sudo] password for globalteckz: ENTER SYSTEM PASSWORD HERE
postgres@globalteckz:/home/globalteckz$ createuser openerp
Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) y
Now check the list of tables created in PostgreSQL using following command
postgres@globalteckz:/home/globalteckz$ psql -l
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
————-+————-+———-+———+——-+———————–
postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_IN | en_IN |
template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_IN | en_IN | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_IN | en_IN | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
(3 rows)
Here you can find the table template1, If Yes then run the following command to use this table:
postgres@globalteckz:/home/globalteckz$ psql template1
psql (9.3.9)
Type “help” for help.
template1=# alter role openerp with password ‘openerp’;
You are done here with the postgresql installation for odoo, For a graphical user interface of postgresql, use the following command:
globalteckz@globalteckz:~$ sudo apt-get install pgadmin3
To access your database using pgAdmin III, you must configure the database connection as shown in the following figure:
You can now start OpenERP Server. You will probably need to modify the OpenERP configuration file according to your needs which is normally located in ~/.openerprc. You will get it when you run odoo server with the -s option into your /home directory.
globalteckz@globalteckz:~$ ./openerp-server –addons-path=addons
globalteckz@globalteckz:~$ ./openerp-server -c <your configuration file address>
Common problems found on running Odoo 9
Here are few common errors those occurred when an end user run the odoo server for the first time,
Globalteckz is trying to help you out to get it off those issues.
1. Role ‘xyz’ does not found
eg: role ‘globalteckz‘ does not found
Solution:
2. Could not execute command ‘lessc’
Solution:
Now restart the odoo server and check the lessc error, it should gone for sure, If still you face this problem try to remove the browser’s cache and restart the browser and type your IP OR “Server URL” Or localhost:8069 (if running odoo on local machine. Here 8069 is the default port used by odoo server, You can change it from the server with the xmlrpc-port=XXXX <Your choice of port>) to run the Odoo Server.
We hope with the above steps will help you to install odoo 9 successfully – We are also preparing a step by step tutorials on how to install Odoo on Windows machine. Incase you face any issues while install odoo 9 feel free to contact us on sales@globalteckz.com
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