OpenERP Installation In Linux
OpenERP works as a structure of Server and Client(either GTK client or web client).In this blog we will go through OpenERP server, gtk-client, web-client installations by downloading source.
OpenERP Server Installation
Install the required packages which include mainly python and its libraries.For the installation pupose we can use the following commands at the terminal
a) sudo apt-get install python python-psycopg2 python-reportlab python-pychart python-pydot
python-egenix-mxdatetime python-lxml python-libxslt1 python-tz python-dateutil python-vobject
python-mako python-yaml python-dev python-setuptools
b)OpenerpERP server uses postgresql database server for its working so,
sudo apt-get install postgresql
c)Create a postgresql database user for OpenERP, who can create multiple databases and manipulate
them.
In terminal, sudo su postgres
createuser myuser -P, set rights as
Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) n
Shall the new role be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) y
d) OpenERP server can be downloaded from OpenERP website download page
http://www.openerp.com/downloads as source tarballs
e)we can test the OpenERP server without installing it by unpacking the archive and starting the
openerp-server executable with following commands
tar -zxf opnerp-server-6.0.1.tar.gz (latest stable version)
cd openerp-server-6.0.1/bin
python ./openerp-server.py
f)OpenERP server can also be installed by using the setup.py
tar -zxf openerp-server-6.0.1.tar.gz
cd openerp-server-6.0.1
python setup.py install
openerp-server (for running OpenERP server)
OpenERP client installation
client requires some of its python dependencies to be installed
a)sudo apt-get install python python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-matplotlib python-hippocanvas
b)OpenERP client can be downloaded from OpenERP website download page
http://www.openerp.com/downloads as source tarballs
c) we can test the OpenERP client without installing it by unpacking the archive and starting the
openerp-client executable with following commands
tar -zxf opnerp-client-6.0.1.tar.gz (latest stable version)
cd openerp-client-6.0.1/bin
python ./openerp-client.py
d)OpenERP client can also be installed by using the setup.py
tar -zxf openerp-client-6.0.1.tar.gz
cd openerp-client-6.0.1
python setup.py install
openerp-client (for running OpenERP client)
OpenERP web-client
Web Client also has its own python dependencies to be installed
a)sudo apt-get install python-cherrypy3 python-pybabel python-simplejson python-formencode
python-pyparsing python-tz python-xlwt
b)OpenERP web-client can be downloaded from OpenERP website download page
http://www.openerp.com/downloads as source tarballs
c) we can test the OpenERP web-client without installing it by unpacking the archive and starting the
openerp-web-client executable with following commands
tar -zxf opnerp-web-6.0.1.tar.gz (latest stable version)
cd openerp-web-6.0.1/bin
python ./openerp-web.py
d)OpenERP web-client can also be installed by using the setup.py
tar -zxf openerp-web-6.0.1.tar.gz
cd openerp-web-6.0.1
python setup.py install
openerp-web (for running OpenERP client) gives us a graphical web based interface.
Source From Launchpad
Till now we were focusing on latest stable release of OpenERP.It is also possible to have source
from the daily being updated launchpad repoistory for OpenERP.So for downloading the latest
Openerp source codes
a) sudo apt-get install bzr
b)bzr branch lp:~openerp/openobject-server/trunk (for openerp-server)
c) bzr branch lp:~openerp/openobject-client/trunk (for openerp-client)
d)bzr branch lp:~openerp/openobject-client-web/trunk (for openerp-web-client)