Setup Guide For Odoo 14 Community Version

1. Keep update your server open the terminal and type the following commands :-sudo apt-get update

2. Installing Packages and libraries :- sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip

3. Install Packages and libraries :-

sudo apt-get install python-dev python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev libsasl2-dev libldap2-dev build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev libmysqlclient-dev libjpeg-dev libpq-dev libjpeg8-dev liblcms2-dev libblas-dev libatlas-base-dev

4. Ensure that all packages are successfully installed. Moreover, there are some web dependencies that also need to be installed:-

sudo apt-get install -y npm

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/nodesudo npm install -g less less-plugin-clean-css

sudo apt-get install -y node-less.

5. Configure Postgresql

As Odoo’s databases are handled by the Postgresql database server. Therefore, next, we need to set-up Postgresql properly:-sudo apt-get install postgresql

6. Then we have to create a database user for managing Odoo databases. Therefore, initially, we need to switch user to Postgres:- sudo su - postgres

7. Now create a user odoo14 with the following command. Furthermore, at the time you must have to provide a new password for the user odoo14 and that password is needed to provide in the Odoo configuration file at the last step of the installation.

8. Write psql then press enter
   1. CREATE USER username;
   2. ALTER ROLE username with password ‘yourpassword’;
   3. ALTER ROLE username with SUPERUSER;
   4. /q
   5. Exit
9. Install required python packages :- sudo pip3 install -r /opt/odoo/requirements.txt

10. Odoo uses wkhtmltopdf for printing pdf reports. In addition, the latest edition of Odoo supports the 0.12.5 version of wkhtmltopdf to support headers and footers.:- sudo wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.5/wkhtmltox_0.12.5-1.bionic_amd64.debsudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.5-1.bionic_amd64.debsudo apt install -f

11. Configuration of Odoo
    1. Open Terminal in folder in which you want to configure odoo
    2. Enter wget https://github.com/odoo/odoo
    3. Open folder where odoo zip file has downloaded extract that and now we have to create the custom configuration file.
    4. Open the odoo-14.0 folder then create the a text file for eg.server14C.conf as given below please make sure extension would .conf then open the file.

5. Set admin_password as per your choice
6. Add above values and make sure that db_user and db_password would be your database user name and password which we had set earlier.
7. For addons_path follow the two images below

12. Open Terminal where our new .conf file exists and enter the below command in terminal.

13. Go to web browser then enter this link http://localhost:8069/web/database/manager
14. Then click the create database option and this view will be loaded then enter the admin_password in Master Password and fill the details in field and press continue.

15. You will see this interface

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