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Sana Ali

Hello, 

I installed odoo12 community version with all the dependencies as per requirements.txt file and other given dependencies on ubuntu 16.04. but while i run the server using command ./odoo-bin, i am getting this error 

from passlib.utils.compat import add_doc, b, bytes, join_bytes, join_byte_values, \
ImportError: cannot import name 'b'

Anyone knows the solution?

Any help would be highly appreciated



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Usman Farzand
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did you use this command to install Odoo 12



sudo pip3 install wheel
sudo pip3 install -r odoo/requirements.txt 
(all dependence meet here)
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Sana Ali
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yes, and they were installed successfully. i didn't face any error here.

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Akhil P Sivan
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Hi, 

When I try to install odoo v13 CE, I got the same issue. And I got it resolved by downgrading the version of "passlib" from v1.7.1 to v1.6.5. In the Odoo 13 requirements, v1.6.5 is mentioned.

sudo pip3 install passlib==1.6.5 
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Adesh Paul
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pip3 install passlib==1.7.4

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Mottu Anand
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Use 

pip3 install -r requirements.txt. It works for me.
I used sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt, but it won't work.
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Pankaj Dhedhi
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Please try this. An error solved in my local system

sudo pip3 install passlib==1.6.5

sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade pip

sudo -H pip3 install pipenv

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