Odoo 12 installation guide for Ubuntu 18.04

Verified and tested Odoo 12 community edition (CE) installation guide with step by step instructions for Ubuntu 18.04 latest version.

How to install Odoo 12 on Ubuntu 18.04

STEP 1

sudo apt-get update

STEP 2

sudo apt-get -y upgrade

STEP 3

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

INSTALL DEPENDENCIES USING PIP3

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

STEP 4

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 node-less

STEP 5

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
add a line for the repository
deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ xenial-pgdg main
wget –quiet -O – https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add –
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.6

STEP 6

Create Database user for Odoo
sudo su postgres
cd
createuser -s odoo
createuser -s ubuntu_user_name
exit

STEP 7

Create Odoo user and group
sudo adduser –system –home=/opt/odoo –group odoo

STEP 8

Install Gdata
cd /opt/odoo
sudo wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/a8/70/bd554151443fe9e89d9a934a7891aaffc63b9cb5c7d608972919a002c03c/gdata-2.0.18.tar.gz
sudo tar zxvf gdata-2.0.18.tar.gz
sudo chown -R odoo: gdata-2.0.18
sudo -s
cd gdata-2.0.18/
python setup.py install
exit

STEP 9

Odoo 12 Download from GitHub
cd /opt/odoo
sudo apt-get install git
sudo su – odoo -s /bin/bash
git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo –depth 1 –branch 12.0 –single-branch
exit

STEP 10

Create Odoo Log File
sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo
sudo chown -R odoo:root /var/log/odoo

STEP 11

Edit Odoo configuration file
sudo gedit/etc/odoo.conf

#Copy the following lines and change with users and password


[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/addons,/opt/odoo/odoo/addons  (confirm tha addons directory from your ubuntu installaltion)

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sudo chown odoo: /etc/odoo.conf

STEP 12

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin/wkhtmltoimage
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf


STEP 13

cd /usr/local/lib/
sudo git clone https://github.com/sass/sassc.git –branch 3.4.2 –depth 1
sudo git clone https://github.com/sass/libsass.git –branch 3.4-stable –depth 1
sudo git clone https://github.com/sass/sass-spec.git –depth=1

STEP 14

echo ‘SASS_LIBSASS_PATH=”/usr/local/lib/libsass”‘ | sudo tee -a /etc/environment
source /etc/environment

STEP 15

sudo make -C libsass

STEP 16

sudo make -C sassc
sudo make -C sassc install

STEP 17

Run Odoo Server
cd /opt/odoo/odoo
./odoo-bin

STEP 18

Open browser on :
http://localhost:8069