Installing OpenERP in Linux virtualenv (Ubuntu 14.04)

install-openerp-linux.mkd

Installing OpenERP on Ubuntu 14.04

Many steps taken from code.zoia.org.

Install dependencies

apt-get

apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-9.3 python-dev

Install LDAP dependencies:

apt-get install libsasl2-dev python-dev libldap2-dev libssl-dev

libxml and libxslt:

apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev

Install bzr for launchpad for OpenERP

apt-get install bzr

pip

pip install --allow-unverified PIL --allow-external PIL \
    python-dateutil feedparser gdata \
    python-ldap lxml mako python-openid \
    psycopg2 Babel reportlab simplejson \
    pytz vatnumber vobject python_webdav \
    Werkzeug pyparsing==1.5.7 pydot \
    PyYAML xlwt PIL

ZSI failed to install and was recommended to be dropped

I ran into errors and learned that you can use download caching with pip so you can run the same command.

pip install --download-cache /path/to/pip/cache matplotlib

manual

pychart

pip install http://download.gna.org/pychart/PyChart-1.39.tar.gz

or

wget http://download.gna.org/pychart/PyChart-1.39.tar.gz
tar xvfz PyChart-1.39.tar.gz
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

OpenERP

Download OpenERP v7 server, addons and web addons from the development trunk of the OpenERP Project Group this takes a lot of ram:

bzr branch lp:~openerp/openobject-server/7.0 server && \
bzr branch lp:~openerp/openobject-addons/7.0 addons && \
bzr branch lp:openerp-web/7.0 web

Maybe a better way is to just get the nightly tarball.

Install the rest:

cd server
python setup.py install

Postgresql

Create user.

sudo -u postgres createuser openerp
sudo -u postgres createdb -O openerp openerp

Set the password.

Change from peer auth to md5.

sudo vim /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/pg_hba.conf

add the line:

local   all             openerp                                 md5

config file

Start the server

./openerp-server -s

Kill it. Edit config file.

vim ~/.openerp_serverrc

...

addons_path = <path to addons repo>, <path to web repo>/addons
db_name = openerp
db_password = <password>
db_user = openerp

Nice nice! One change:

 sudo -u postgres createuser --pwprompt openerp

Oh and just for your info: this did not work. OpenERP keeps on complaining not have the base or docutils modules.