install-steps-gnu-health

1. Make sure you have the following requisites

- Debian or Ubuntu
- Postgresql
- Python
- Tryton

2. Install requisite software

2.1 apt-get install python-pip python-lxml python-relatorio python-psycopg2 postgresql python-tz

3. Create the operating system user

# adduser gnuhealth

4. Create the database user

# su - postgres
$ createuser gnuhealth
Shall the new role be a superuser (y/n)

If gnuhealth is the only user in the system answer yes (I won't, i want to try the other way)

6. Pull up GNU health from PyPi (while logged in as gnuhealth)

gnuhealth@what$ pip install --user trytond_health_profile


7. Install the tryton client (this did not work for me), I actually had to do apt-get install tryton-client

gnuhealth$ pip install --user tryton

This actually installs the tryton client and server inside ~/.local/bin | The configuration file is at ~/.config

8. The server will listen only on localhost, if you want the server to accept connections from remote machines, you need to provide a trytond.conf. Now, that was not done by automatically by the installed, there is no file to edit. You need to create it, and then launch trytond with the -c (config) flag specifying the trytond.conf file

Create the trytond.conf, anywhere you want it, but I would put it at the same folder where the trytond executable is located.  

See the contents of the file trytond.conf, I commented it some more for my own use.

9. Launch the trytond server

gnuhealth$ ~/.local/bin/trytond -c trytond.conf

10. Launch the client, anywhere you want it. The client executable is tryton

trytond.conf

#This file is part of Tryton.  I pulled it out from http://hg.tryton.org/trytond/file/tip/etc/trytond.conf
# The most important things to set here are
# home --- set this to the IP address of the machine
# jsonrpc -- set the value to <ip address>:8000


     2 #this repository contains the full copyright notices and license terms.
     3 [options]
     4 
     5 # This is the hostname used when generating tryton URI
     6 #hostname =
     7 
     8 # Activate the json-rpc protocol
     9 jsonrpc = localhost:8000
    10 #ssl_jsonrpc = False
    11 
    12 # Configure the path of json-rpc data
    13 #jsondata_path = /var/www/localhost/tryton
    14 
    15 # Activate the xml-rpc protocol
    16 #xmlrpc = *:8069
    17 #ssl_xmlrpc = False
    18 
    19 # Activate the webdav protocol
    20 #webdav = *:8080
    21 #ssl_webdav = False
    22 
    23 # Configure the database type
    24 # allowed values are postgresql, sqlite, mysql
    25 #db_type = postgresql
    26 
    27 # Configure the database connection
    28 ## Note: Only databases owned by db_user will be displayed in the connection dialog
    29 ## of the Tryton client. db_user must have create permission for new databases
    30 ## to be able to use automatic database creation with the Tryton client.
    31 #db_host = False
    32 #db_port = False
    33 #db_user = False
    34 #db_password = False
    35 #db_minconn = 1
    36 #db_maxconn = 64
    37 
    38 # Configure the postgresql path for the executable
    39 #pg_path = None
    40 
    41 # Configure the Tryton server password
    42 #admin_passwd = admin
    43 
    44 # Configure the path of the files for the pid and the logs
    45 #pidfile = False
    46 #logfile = False
    47 
    48 #privatekey = server.pem
    49 #certificate = server.pem
    50 
    51 # Configure the SMTP connection
    52 #smtp_server = localhost
    53 #smtp_port = 25
    54 #smtp_ssl = False
    55 #smtp_tls = False
    56 #smtp_password = False
    57 #smtp_user = False
    58 
    59 # Configure the path to store attachments and sqlite database
    60 #data_path = /var/lib/trytond
    61 
    62 # Allow to run more than one instance of trytond
    63 #multi_server = False
    64 
    65 # Configure the session timeout (inactivity of the client in sec)
    66 #session_timeout = 600
    67 
    68 # Enable psyco module
    69 # Need to have psyco installed http://psyco.sourceforge.net/
    70 #psyco = False
    71 
    72 # Enable auto-reload of modules if changed
    73 #auto_reload = True
    74 
    75 # Prevent database listing
    76 #prevent_dblist = False
    77 
    78 # Enable cron
    79 # cron = True
    80 
    81 # unoconv connection
    82 #unoconv = pipe,name=trytond;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext
    83 
    84 # Number of retries on database operational error
    85 # retry = 5