Before you begin
Update the system to the latest packages:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Install git, pip and all other tools and libraries required to build Odoo dependencies:
sudo apt install git python3-pip build-essential wget python3-dev python3-venv python3-wheel libxslt-dev libzip-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev python3-setuptools node-less
Create Odoo user
Create a new system user and group with home directory /opt/odoo that will run the Odoo service.
sudo useradd -m -d /opt/odoo -U -r -s /bin/bash odoo
Install and configure PostgreSQL
Install the Postgres package from the Ubuntu’s default repositories:
sudo apt-get install postgresql
Once the installation is completed create a postgres user with the same name as the previously created system user, in our case odoo:
sudo su - postgres -c "createuser -s odoo"
Install and configure Odoo
We will install odoo from the GitHub repository inside an isolated Python environment so we can have more control over versions and updates.
Before starting with the installation process, make sure you switch to odoo user.
sudo su - odoo
To confirm that you are logged-in as odoo user you can use the following command:
whoami
Now we can start with the installation process, first clone the odoo from the GitHub repository:
git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo --depth 1 --branch 11.0 /opt/odoo/odoo11
To create a new virtual environment for our Odoo 11 installation run:
cd /opt/odoo
python3 -m venv odoo11-venv
activate the environment with the following command:
source odoo11-venv/bin/activate
and install all required Python modules with pip3:
pip3 install wheel pip3 install -r odoo11/requirements.txt
Once the installation is completed deactivate the environment and switch back to your sudo user using the following commands:
deactivate
exit
If you plan to install custom modules it is best to install those modules in a separate directory. To create a new directory for our custom modules run:
sudo mkdir /opt/odoo/odoo11-custom-addons sudo chown odoo: /opt/odoo/odoo11-custom-addons
Next, we need to create a configuration file, we can either create a new one from scratch or copy the included configuration file:
sudo cp /opt/odoo/odoo11/debian/odoo.conf /etc/odoo11.conf
Open the file and edit it as follows:
/etc/odoo11.conf [options] ; This is the password that allows database operations: admin_passwd = my_admin_passwd db_host = False db_port = False db_user = odoo db_password = False addons_path = /opt/odoo/odoo11/addons ; If you are using custom modules ; addons_path = /opt/odoo/odoo11/addons,/opt/odoo/odoo11-custom-addons
Create a systemd unit file
To run odoo as a service we will create a odoo11.service unit file in the /etc/systemd/system/directory with the following contents:
/etc/systemd/system/odoo11.service [Unit] Description=Odoo11 Requires=postgresql.service After=network.target postgresql.service [Service] Type=simple SyslogIdentifier=odoo11 PermissionsStartOnly=true User=odoo Group=odoo ExecStart=/opt/odoo/odoo11-venv/bin/python3 /opt/odoo/odoo11/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo11.conf StandardOutput=journal+console [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Notify systemd that we created a new unit file and start the Odoo service by executing:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl start odoo11
You can check the service status with the the following command:
sudo systemctl status odoo11
and if there are no errors you can enable the Odoo service to be automatically started at boot time:
sudo systemctl enable odoo11
If you want to see the messages logged by the Odoo service you can use the command below:
sudo journalctl -u odoo11
Test the Installation
Open your browser and type: http://<your_domain_or_IP_address>:8069
Assuming that installation is successful, a screen similar to the following will appear:
