This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install Odoo on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04 server.
Odoo (formerly OpenERP) is simple and intuitive suite of open-source, all-in-one ERP and CRM platform for businesses and individuals who want to manage their customers, invoices, orders, products, inventories and more… It also includes human resources and accounting components to help manage the business employees and finances.
Odoo is probably the best open source ERP / CRM management software to run your company…. used by thousands of businesses worldwide to manage their CRM and ERP processes.
Odoo is a good place to start when you’re looking for a enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management solutions… this open source ERP/CRM software is built on the LAMP / LEMP stack… and offer features that help you run your business and collaborate with your customers and employees…
Odoo is designed for ease of use to allow enterprises and business owners to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with customers through out the entire process…
To install Odoo, follow the steps below:
Step 1: Install Packages to Support Odoo
To perform a custom Odoo installation, you’ll have to install packages like Git, Node.js, Pip and others… Run the commands below to get them installed…
sudo apt update
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
Step 2: Create Odoo User
After installing the required packages above, you’ll also want to create an user account for Odoo… Simply run the command below to get a user called odoo created.
The user home directory will be /opt/odoo
sudo useradd -m -d ``**/opt/odoo**`` -U -r -s /bin/bash ``**odoo**
Step 3: Install PostgreSQL
Odoo needs a PostgreSQL database to store its content…. To get PostgreSQL installed, simply run the commands below…
sudo apt install postgresql
After installing the database server, enable and start it by running the commands below…
sudo systemctl enable --now postgresql.service
Next, create a PostgreSQL database user for Odoo… Run the commands below to login and create a new user account called Odoo…
sudo su - postgres -c "createuser -s ``odoo``"
Next, create a new database user account called odoo
sudo su - postgres -c "createdb ``odoo``"
Next, grant all privileges to odoo user on the odoo database…
sudo -u postgres psql
grant all privileges on database odoo to odoo;
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