hpr4449 :: How to install Odoo 18 on a virtual machine
In this podcast I explain how to install Odoo 18 on a (virtual) machine and start using it.
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Business Applications.
A open series on Business specific Applications
Create a vm with Debian 12 and at least 4 Gb of RAM and say 20-30 Gb disc space.
installation
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sudo apt install -y gpg postgresql
wget -q -O - https://nightly.odoo.com/odoo.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/odoo-archive-keyring.gpg
echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/odoo-archive-keyring.gpg] https://nightly.odoo.com/18.0/nightly/deb/ ./' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/odoo.list
Odoo CE latest nightly build
https://nightly.odoo.com/18.0/nightly/deb/odoo_18.0.latest_all.deb
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y odoo
Install wkhtmltopdf
wget -O wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-3.bookworm_amd64.deb https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6.1-3/wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-3.bookworm_amd64.deb
dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-3.bookworm_amd64.deb
apt install -f -y
apt install -y python3-xlwt python3-num2words python3-phonenumbers
systemctl status odoo
First use
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http://
Will relocate to /web/database/selector
Master Password to protect this form
Database Name.
Email: your email
Password: your desired password
Phone Number: optional
Language: your desired language
Country: select your country
Demo Data: select to get demo data.
Click "Create database"
Wait.
Login.
You see /odoo/apps.
Upper left square-icon shows 'Apps' and 'Settings'.
Let's install a simple app: contacts
Search in the search bar for "contacts" and when displayed, click the 'Activate' button of the "contacts" app.
When done, the same menu now contains: Discuss, To-do, contacts, Project, Email Marketing, Surveys, Employees
and the earlier mentioned Apps and Settings.
Go back to 'Apps' and Activate the "Sales" app. This will also install the "Invoicing" app.
Time to start playing around.
Some tech stuff, interesting locations
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/etc/odoo/odoo.conf
Here you can add additional addons later: /var/lib/odoo/.local/share/Odoo/addons/18.0/
Here are all files uploaded to Odoo: find /var/lib/odoo/.local/share/Odoo/filestore/
This is where user sessions are administrated: find /var/lib/odoo/.local/share/Odoo/sessions/
And these are the main locations where the Odoo program can be found.
ls -al /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/
ls -al /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/addons/
ls -al /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/addons/ | wc