Steps To Install Odoo 18 On Ubuntu
To install Odoo 18 on Ubuntu you just follow the below steps.
Step 1 : Update Server
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Step 2 : Create Odoo User in Ubuntu
sudo adduser -system -home=/opt/odoo -group odoo
Step 3 : Install PostgreSQL Server
sudo apt-get install postgresql -y
Step 4 : Create Odoo user for postgreSQL
sudo su - postgres -c "createuser -s odoo" 2> /dev/null || true
Step 5 : Install Python Dependencies
sudo apt-get install git python3 python3-pip build-essential wget python3-dev python3-venv python3-wheel libxslt-dev libzip-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev python3-setuptools node-less libjpeg-dev gdebi -y
Step 6 : Install Python PIP Dependencies
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libffi-dev
Step 7 : Install other required packages
sudo apt-get install nodejs npm -y
sudo npm install -g rtlcss
Step 8 : Install Wkhtmltopdf
sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.bionic_amd64.deb
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin/wkhtmltoimage
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Step 9 : Create Log directory
sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo
sudo chown odoo:odoo /var/log/odoo
Step 10 :Install Odoo
sudo apt-get install git
sudo git clone --depth 1 --branch 18.0 https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo /odoo/odoo-server
Step 11 : Setting permissions on home folder
sudo chown -R odoo:odoo /odoo/*
Step 12 : Create server config file
sudo touch /etc/odoo-server.conf
sudo su root -c "printf '[options] \n; This is the password that allows database operations:\n' >> /etc/odoo-server.conf"
sudo su root -c "printf 'admin_passwd = admin\n' >> /etc/odoo-server.conf"
sudo su root -c "printf 'xmlrpc_port = 8069\n' >> /etc/odoo-server.conf"
sudo su root -c "printf 'logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log\n' >> /etc/odoo-server.conf"
sudo su root -c "printf 'addons_path=/odoo/odoo-server/addons\n' >> /etc/odoo-server.conf"
sudo chown odoo:odoo /etc/odoo-server.conf
sudo chmod 640 /etc/odoo-server.conf
Step 13 : Now Start Odoo
sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash
cd /odoo/odoo-server
./odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo-server.conf
Now your Odoo instance is up and running.
Go to web browser and access your Odoo at localhost:8069
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