Guide on Installing Odoo 17 on Ubuntu 20.04

In this blog post, you will learn how to install Odoo 17 on Ubuntu 20.04

There are some must followed steps involved in the installation and there are also some files that are necessary to install as a prerequisites.

Prerequisites

• Access to the command line/terminal with sudo permissions.

• Access to a browser.

• Git installed.

• Pip for Python 3 installed.

After meet all the prerequisites, follow the steps below to install Odoo 17 on Ubuntu in a Python virtual environment.

Installing Odoo in a virtual environment creates an isolated system and allows testing of different versions on the same machine.

Here are the steps to follow one by one to install Odoo 17.

STEP 1:Open the terminal and update the apt repository.

Update your server and then also upgrade it using below commands.

• sudo apt-get update

• sudo apt-get upgrade

Odoo requires Python 3.10 or later to run.

Step 2 : Install python 3.10 0n Ubuntu 20.04

Update Ubuntu Linux Before Installing Python 3.10

• sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Import Python PPA on Ubuntu

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa -y

Update the APT repository sources list for the Python PPA on Ubuntu.

• sudo apt update

Please install Python version 3.10.

• sudo apt install python3.10

• sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.10 1

Confirming the installation of Python 3.10 on Ubuntu.

• python3.10 --version

To install additional packages for Python 3.10 on Ubuntu.

• sudo apt install python3.10-full

Step 3: Establish an 'odoo' user and group.

• sudo adduser -system -home=/opt/odoo17 -group odoo17

Step 4: Set up and configure PostgreSQL.

To ensure proper functionality, Odoo requires a PostgreSQL database server. By default, the Odoo package is configured to utilize the PostgreSQL server located on the same host as your Odoo instance. Execute the provided command to install the PostgreSQL server.

• sudo apt-get install -y postgresql

Following the installation, utilize the commands below to initiate the PostgreSQL database server.

• sudo service postgresql start

Next, create a user for the Odoo 17 database.

• sudo su - postgres

• createuser --createdb --username postgres --no-createrole --no-superuser --pwprompt odoo17

You need to assign a password to the newly created role and confirm it by re-entering the same password.

• /q

• exit

Afterward, proceed to restart the PostgreSQL server.

• sudo service postgresql restart

Step 5: Install Python and its required packages on the server.

• sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip

Step 6: Install a variety of development packages.

• sudo apt-get install libpq-dev -y

• sudo apt-get install libsasl2-dev python-dev libldap2-dev libssl-dev -y

• sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev -y

Install the Python dependencies required for Odoo 17.

Switch to the 'odoo' user by

• sudo su odoo17 -s /bin/bash 

Then proceed to install the necessary dependency packages.

• pip3 install psycopg2-binary

• pip3 install Babel decorator docutils ebaysdk feedparser gevent greenlet html2text Jinja2 lxml Mako MarkupSafe mock num2words ofxparse passlib Pillow psutil psycogreen psycopg2 pydot pyparsing PyPDF2 pyserial python-dateutil python-openid pytz pyusb PyYAML qrcode reportlab requests six suds-jurko vatnumber vobject Werkzeug XlsxWriter xlwt xlrd polib

Step 7: Install dependencies for Odoo web.

• sudo apt-get install -y npm

• sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

• sudo npm install -g less less-plugin-clean-css

• sudo apt-get install -y node-less

• sudo python3 -m pip install libsass

Step 8: Install the community version of Odoo 17 from GitHub.

The following command installs Git on your system. If Git is already installed, you can disregard this step.

• sudo apt-get install -y git

Next, change to the 'odoo' user.

• sudo su - odoo17 -s /bin/bash

Clone the 17.0 branch of Odoo from GitHub.

• git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo --depth 1 --branch=17.0 --single-branch

Navigate to a directory named "odoo".

• cd odoo/

Install the required Python dependencies.

• pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Exit from the 'odoo' user session.

Step 9: Generate an Odoo configuration file.

• sudo vim /etc/odoo17-server.conf

Paste the following content into the configuration file.

[options]

; This is the password that allows database operations:

; admin_passwd = admin

db_host = False

db_port = False

db_user = odoo17

db_password = False

logfile = /var/log/odoo17/odoo17-server.log

addons_path = /opt/odoo17/odoo/addons,/opt/odoo17/odoo/odoo/addons

Change permission and also the user ownership of configuration file as below

• sudo chown odoo17: /etc/odoo17-server.conf

• sudo chmod 640 /etc/odoo17-server.conf

​Step 10: Establish an Odoo log file.

• sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo17

• sudo chown odoo17:root /var/log/odoo17

Step 11: You may copy and paste the provided script into this file.

• sudo vim /etc/init.d/odoo17-server

Subsequently, modify ownership and permissions.

• sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/odoo17-server

• sudo chown root: /etc/init.d/odoo17-server

Step 12: Verify the server by running it as a service.

To initiate the Odoo server.

• sudo /etc/init.d/odoo17-server start

Halt the Odoo server.

• sudo /etc/init.d/odoo17-server stop

Check the Odoo log files.

• tail -f /var/log/odoo17/odoo17-server.log

Step 13: Launch Odoo locally.

• sudo su - odoo17 -s /bin/bash

• python3 /opt/odoo17/odoo-bin

Next, open a web browser to access Odoo 17.

http://localhost:8069

or

http://0.0.0.0:8069

Step 14: Installation of WKHTMLTOPDF

To generate PDF reports, you need to install the correct version of wkhtmltopdf (0.126-1).

• wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.focal_amd64.deb

• sudo apt install ./wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.focal_amd64.deb

• sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/

• sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin