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How To Install Odoo 14 On Ubuntu

Install Odoo 14
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Abhishek M.SAug. 28, 2020

After much anticipation, Odoo released the version 13. Odoo 13 last year in Odoo experience and now triggering for Odoo 14. Odoo 14 road-map gets you the glimpse of features in the upcoming Odoo version. To install Odoo 14 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS you just follow the bellow steps.

Install odoo 14

STEP 1 : To Update apt source list.

sudo apt-get update

STEP 2 : Create odoo user and also group.

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

STEP3 : For the smooth running of odoo, install PostgreSQL database server and install it on the same host as odoo is running.

sudo apt-get install -y postgresql

After the installation start use the below commands to start the postgresql database server

sudo service postgresql start

Then create a database user for odoo

sudo su - postgres

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

Give a role password for the newly created role and verify it by giving password again.

exit

Then restart the postgresql server

sudo service postgresql restart

STEP 4 : Install python and depended python packages on the server.

sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip

Install Python Dependencies for Odoo 14.


To switch in to the odoo user and then install the dependency packages.

sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash

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 polib

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 -y node-less
sudo python3 -m pip install libsass

STEP 6 : Install odoo 14 community version from nightly.odoo.com.

Switch to odoo user

sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash

Download the odoo 14 package from nightly.odoo.com

wget https://nightly.odoo.com/master/nightly/deb/odoo_14.1alpha1.latest.tar.xz

Extract the downloaded package of odoo14 using tar

tar xfv odoo_14.1alpha1.latest.tar.xz

Change directory from /opt/odoo to src

 cd src 

Install the requirements

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

And exit from the odoo user

STEP 7 : Create a odoo configuration file

sudo vim /etc/odoo-server.conf

Copy the below content in configuration file.

[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/src/addons,/opt/odoo/src/odoo/addons

Change the permission and also the user ownership of configuration file as below

sudo chown odoo: /etc/odoo-server.conf 
sudo chmod 640 /etc/odoo-server.conf

STEP 8 : Create odoo log file

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

STEP 9 : You can copy and paste the script to this file.

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

Then change ownership and permission

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/odoo-server
sudo chown root: /etc/init.d/odoo-server

STEP 10 : Test the server running as service

To start the odoo server

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

Stop the odoo server

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

To restart the odoo server

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

View the odoo log files

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

Now, if you want to add this service to begin on boot up run the bellow command

update-rc.d odoo-server defaults

STEP 11 : Run odoo locally

Switch to odoo user

sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash
python3  /opt/odoo/src/odoo-bin

Then go to web browser to access odoo14

http://localhost:8069

or

http://0.0.0.0:8069

STEP 12 : WKHTMLTOPDF

To print PDF reports need to install right version of wkhtmltopdf.

sudo wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.bionic_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.bionic_amd64.deb
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage  /usr/bin/wkhtmltoimage
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf  /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf

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