Installation notes for GNU Health

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 posgresql 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$ pop 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

to say that this is great would be an under statement .. i know how to work my way through python scripting .. but this gnu health stuff is driving me crazy!! .could you be more detailed on the installation, like what is the relation of tryton and gnu health? i have looked almost everywhere about that relation and the more i look the more i get confused