Find the easiest installation guide of odoo 11 on your Ubuntu 16.04 and explore amazing new features of odoo 11.
Step 1: Update apt source list
“Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?”
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sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
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sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
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sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
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Do not run first command again
Step 2: Install Python Dependencies for Odoo 11
Step 3: Install PostgreSQL 9.5+ Follow below steps with postgres user
Step 4: Configure odoo 11 (by odoo user)
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sudo mkdir /opt/odoo
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sudo adduser --system --home=/opt/odoo --group odoo
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sudo chown -R odoo: /opt/odoo/
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Download odoo 11 zip file from nightly build repository from URL : https://nightly.odoo.com/11.0/nightly/src/
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Extract file and transfer it to /opt/odoo directory:
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Go to directory where odoo 11 is downloaded.
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sudo unzip <file-name>
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sudo cp -r <directory-name> /opt/odoo/
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The file odoo-bin is NOT in the directory.
Step 5: Install Odoo Web Dependencies (by sudo user)
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sudo apt-get install -y npm
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sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
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sudo apt-get install npm (ignore this command if already exist)
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sudo npm install -g less less-plugin-clean-css
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sudo apt-get install node-less
Step 6: Install Stable Wkhtmltopdf Version (by sudo user)
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cd /tmp
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sudo wget https://downloads.wkhtmltopdf.org/0.12/0.12.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
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sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
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sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin
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sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin
Step 7: Create Odoo Server Configuration and Log File (by odoo user)
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sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo
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cd /etc
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sudo nano odoo-server.conf
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Copy and paste below content in the config file, write correct addons paths, DB user and DB password. Now save the file.
| [options] admin_passwd = <strong password> db_host = localhost db_port = 5432 db_user = odoo db_password = *********** addons_path = /opt/odoo/odoo-11-directory/odoo/addons,/opt/odoo/custom-addons logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log xmlrpc_port = 8069 dbfilter = * xmlrpc_interface = 127.0.0.1 proxy_mode = True |
Step 8: Create an Odoo Service (by sudo user)
| [Unit] Description=Odoo Open Source ERP and CRM Requires=postgresql.service After=network.target postgresql.service
[Service] Type=simple PermissionsStartOnly=true SyslogIdentifier=odoo-server User=odoo Group=odoo ExecStart=/opt/odoo/odoo-11.0.post20180710/odoo-bin --config=/etc/odoo-server.conf --addons-path=/opt/odoo/odoo-11.0.post20180710/odoo/addons WorkingDirectory=/opt/odoo/ StandardOutput=journal+console
[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target |
Step 9: Change File Ownership and Permissions (by sudo user):
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sudo chmod 755 /lib/systemd/system/odoo-server.service
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sudo chown root: /lib/systemd/system/odoo-server.service
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sudo chown odoo:root /var/log/odoo
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sudo chown odoo: /etc/odoo-server.conf
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sudo chmod 640 /etc/odoo-server.conf
Step 10: Now Start Odoo Server and Enable the Service (by sudo user)
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sudo systemctl enable odoo-server
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sudo systemctl start odoo-server
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Using ‘status’, you can find information about all running odoo servers.
Step 11: Steps to configure Apache2 with odoo (by sudo user)
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sudo apt-get install apache2
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sudo ufw app list
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sudo ufw allow 'Apache Full'
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sudo ufw status
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sudo systemctl status apache2
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cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
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sudo nano test-odoo.conf
| <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName odoo.test.com ServerAlias odoo.test.com LogLevel warn ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/odoo.test.com.error.log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/odoo.test.com.access.log combined ProxyPass / http://localhost:8069/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8069/ </VirtualHost> |
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sudo a2ensite test-odoo.conf
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sudo a2enmod proxy
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sudo a2enmod proxy_balancer
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sudo a2enmod proxy_http
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sudo service apache2 reload
Do host file entry /etc/hosts. Now your odoo 11 is ready for use.
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