Steps To Install Odoo 14 On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Odoo is now ready to launch the latest version of Odoo 14 with too many new features.

This blog is to provide steps for installation and configuration of Odoo for production environment using Git source and Python environment on an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

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
                    
                        
sudo -H pip3 install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/odoo/odoo/master/requirements.txt
                    

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 wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.bionic_amd64.deb
                    
                        
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 14.0 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