OpenERP Installation in Ubuntu 12.04LTS
Update the packages in the service before starting the installation. To update the VPS :
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Add an openerp user to own and run the application.
sudo adduser --system --home=/opt/openerp --group openerp
Note that a “home” of /opt/openerp has been specified, this is where the OpenERP server code will reside and is created automatically by the command above.
Install PostgreSQL
sudo apt-get install postgresql
Switch to postgres user to create the database
sudo su - postgres
Now create database
createuser --createdb --username postgres --no-createrole --no-superuser --pwprompt openerp
Provide a password when prompted.
Type exit to switch user.
exit
Install required Python dependencies
sudo apt-get install python-dateutil python-docutils python-feedparser python-gdata python-jinja2 python-ldap python-libxslt1 python-lxml python-mako python-mock python-openid python-psycopg2 python-psutil python-pybabel python-pychart python-pydot python-pyparsing python-reportlab python-simplejson python-tz python-unittest2 python-vatnumber python-vobject python-webdav python-werkzeug python-xlwt python-yaml python-zsi
Download openerp 7.0
wget http://nightly.openerp.com/7.0/nightly/src/openerp-7.0-latest.tar.gz
Now extract the tarball
cd /opt/openerp sudo tar xvf ~/openerp-7.0-latest.tar.gz
Change the ownership of the files to the Openerp user we created earlier.
sudo chown -R openerp: *
Rename the directory to the server for later use
sudo cp -a openerp-7.0 server
Copy the conf file to /etc
sudo cp /opt/openerp/server/install/openerp-server.conf /etc/
Now change the ownership
sudo chown openerp: /etc/openerp-server.conf sudo chmod 640 /etc/openerp-server.conf
Edit openerp-server.conf and edit the line db_password = False. Replace False with the password you provided for postgres user and db_user=admin with your postgres user.
sudo nano /etc/openerp-server.conf
Also, add the line below to specify the log file
logfile = /var/log/openerp/openerp-server.log
Switch to openerp user
sudo su - openerp -s /bin/bash
You will see a message saying openerp is running and you have completed your installation successfully.
In your browser type http://<IPaddress>:8069 to verify
Replace the contents of the file /opt/openerp/server/install/openerp-server.init with the file below
Copy that file to /etc/init.d and rename it as
openerp-server
Make the script executable and owned by the root
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/openerp-server sudo chown root: /etc/init.d/openerp-server
Set the location of openerp log file and make it writable by openerp.
sudo mkdir /var/log/openerp sudo chown openerp:root /var/log/openerp
To make openerp start at boot
sudo update-rc.d openerp-server defaults
Now openerp will start at boot.
That’s it!!
