OpenERP V7.0 installation on ubuntu 12.04
just after a clean installation of ubuntu 12.04 LTS
commands are complete so you can copy paste these commands below to and complete the process as a newbie.
Update apt source list
sudo apt-get update
Download and install updates
sudo apt-get upgrade
install required packages for openerp
sudo apt-get install graphviz ghostscript postgresql-client \
python-dateutil python-feedparser python-matplotlib \
python-ldap python-libxslt1 python-lxml python-mako \
python-openid python-psycopg2 python-pybabel python-pychart \
python-pydot python-pyparsing python-reportlab python-simplejson \
python-tz python-vatnumber python-vobject python-webdav \
python-werkzeug python-xlwt python-yaml python-imaging
install some other packages that we will probably need in future
sudo apt-get install gcc python-dev mc bzr python-setuptools python-babel \
python-feedparser python-reportlab-accel python-zsi python-openssl \
python-egenix-mxdatetime python-jinja2 python-unittest2 python-mock \
python-docutils lptools make python-psutil python-paramiko postgresql
install gdata client (since ubuntu package is old we download and install from source)
wget http://gdata-python-client.googlecode.com/files/gdata-2.0.17.tar.gz
tar zxvf gdata-2.0.17.tar.gz
cd gdata-2.0.17/
sudo python setup.py install
create a new openerp system user for openerp and other related processes
sudo adduser openerp --home /opt/openerp
Create database user for openerp
sudo -u postgres createuser -s openerp
move to the install directory
mkdir /opt/openerp/v7
cd /opt/openerp/v7
run the bazaar to download the latest revision from launchpad
(this will take long if an error occurs just rerun command)
bzr branch lp:openerp-web/7.0 web
(this will take longer if an error occurs just rerun command)
bzr branch lp:openobject-server/7.0 server
(this will take much more longer if an error occurs just rerun last command)
bzr branch lp:openobject-addons/7.0 addons
Exit from openerp user shell
exit
Copy OpenERP configuration file to /etc
sudo cp /opt/openerp/v7/server/install/openerp-server.conf /etc/openerp-server.conf
Edit the configuration file
sudo nano /etc/openerp-server.conf
Write your database operation password and remove the semicolon of that line.
Also add the addons_path to the end of file, my file looks like below.
[options]
; This is the password that allows database operations:
admin_passwd = PASSWORD
db_host = False
db_port = False
db_user = openerp
db_password = False
addons_path = /opt/openerp/v7/addons,/opt/openerp/v7/web/addons
;Log settings
logfile = /var/log/openerp/openerp-server.log
log_level = error
Change the file permissions and file ownership to the openerp user.
sudo chown openerp: /etc/openerp-server.conf
sudo chmod 640 /etc/openerp-server.conf
Run the server
sudo su openerp
cd /opt/openerp/v7/server/
./openerp-server -c /etc/openerp-server.conf &
test your installation from http://yourserverIP:8069
Starting Server Up Automatically
After playing with init script in source I decided to use Open Sourcerer's init script since it is clean and nice. You can download the original from: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/openerp-server
We just need to change the location of the daemon. below is the init script you can copy paste this to the file.
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: openerp-server
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
# Should-Start: $network
# Should-Stop: $network
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Enterprise Resource Management software
# Description: Open ERP is a complete ERP and CRM software.
### END INIT INFO
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/opt/openerp/v7/server/openerp-server
NAME=openerp-server
DESC=openerp-server
# Specify the user name (Default: openerp).
USER=openerp
# Specify an alternate config file (Default: /etc/openerp-server.conf).
CONFIGFILE="/etc/openerp-server.conf"
# pidfile
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
# Additional options that are passed to the Daemon.
DAEMON_OPTS="-c $CONFIGFILE"
[ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0
[ -f $CONFIGFILE ] || exit 0
checkpid() {
[ -f $PIDFILE ] || return 1
pid=`cat $PIDFILE`
[ -d /proc/$pid ] && return 0
return 1
}
case "${1}" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ${DESC}: "
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \
--chuid ${USER} --background --make-pidfile \
--exec ${DAEMON} -- ${DAEMON_OPTS}
echo "${NAME}."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ${DESC}: "
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \
--oknodo
echo "${NAME}."
;;
restart|force-reload)
echo -n "Restarting ${DESC}: "
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \
--oknodo
sleep 1
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \
--chuid ${USER} --background --make-pidfile \
--exec ${DAEMON} -- ${DAEMON_OPTS}
echo "${NAME}."
;;
*)
N=/etc/init.d/${NAME}
echo "Usage: ${NAME} {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
You can download this edited copy with the following URL.
sudo wget http://www.altinisik.net/openerp/openerp-server -O /etc/init.d/openerp-server
Make the init script executable.
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/openerp-server
Add openerp-server to system startup
sudo update-rc.d openerp-server defaults
Create log directory for openerp
sudo mkdir /var/log/openerp
sudo chown openerp:root /var/log/openerp
Copy Logrotate file from source to /etc/logrotate.d folder
sudo cp /opt/openerp/v7/server/install/openerp-server.logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/openerp-server
sudo chmod 755 /etc/logrotate.d/openerp-server
Restart the server to check if init script works
sudo shutdown -r now
Please give your feedback about instructions above
As pointed out by Andreas, possible duplicate of What's the right way to start cron worker jobs? [EDIT: link fixed]
Daniel, my question is a related question not duplicate.