How to Install Odoo 12 on Ubuntu 16.04

In this article, we will show you how to install Odoo 12 on Ubuntu 16.04.  Odoo (formerly OpenERP) is a suite of open source business apps that cover all your company needs: CRM, eCommerce, accounting, inventory, ERP, a point of sale, project management, and many more.  Odoo comes in two editions, an open-source Community Edition, and Enterprise edition, the licensed one. In our case, we will install and use the Community edition of Odoo.

1. Requirements

The minimum system requirements for Odoo running 5 users is 2 CPU Cores and 2Gb of RAM memory. We will be using our VPS SSD 2 Plan for the purpose of this tutorial.

•  Ubuntu 16.04 VPS
•  PostgreSQL server
•  Python version 3.5
• Apache web server
• SSH access with root privileges

2. Log in via SSH and update the system

Log in to your Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with SSH as a root user

ssh root@IP_Address -p Port_number

You can check whether you have the proper Ubuntu version installed on your server with the following command:

# lsb_release -a

You should get this output:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial

Once you are logged in, run the following command to update all installed packages to the latest available version

apt-get update && apt upgrade

3. Install PostgreSQL server

Odoo requires a PostgreSQL database to store its information, so we will have to install the PostgreSQL server. We will install a PostgreSQL server using the following command:

apt-get install postgresql

Once installed, start the PostgreSQL server and enable it to start at server boot.

systemctl start postgresql
systemctl enable postgresql

Follow this tutorial for detailed instructions on how to install Postgre SQL on Ubuntu 16.04

3. Add repository and install Odoo

Odoo is not available in the official Ubuntu 16.04 repository, so in order to install it, we will need to add the Odoo repository to the server. In order to do it, run the following commands

wget -O - https://nightly.odoo.com/odoo.key | apt-key add -
echo "deb http://nightly.odoo.com/12.0/nightly/deb/ ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/odoo.list

4. Install Odoo 12 on Ubuntu

Next, update the local package database

apt-get update

and install Odoo using the apt package manager

apt-get install odoo

This command will install Odoo, Python 3 and all necessary Python modules, create PostgreSQL user and start the Odoo instance. After the installation is completed, you can check the status of the Odoo service:

systemctl status odoo

Output:

● odoo.service - Odoo Open Source ERP and CRM
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/odoo.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running)
 Main PID: 7693 (odoo)
   CGroup: /system.slice/odoo.service
           └─7693 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/odoo --config /etc/odoo/odoo.conf --logfile /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log

After the installation is completed, edit Odoo’s configuration file and set the master admin password.

nano /etc/odoo/odoo.conf

Uncomment the ‘admin_passwrd’ line, and change the admin_password field with a strong password.

admin_passwd = STRONG_PASSWORD

To put these changes into effect, restart Odoo

systemctl restart odoo

At this point, you can open your favorite web browser and access your Odoo at http://your_IP_Address:8069

5. Apache installation

Check whether Apache is already installed and running on your server. You can do this with the following command:

dpkg -l apache2

If Apache is not installed, you can do this by executing the following commands.

apt-get install apache2

After the installation is complete, you should enable Apache to start automatically upon server boot with:

systemctl enable apache2

You can also check the status of your Apache service with the following command:

systemctl status apache2

Now that we are sure that Apache is installed and running on our server we can continue with the next step and set up an Odoo reverse proxy.

To the next step, we will need to enable some additional proxy modules for Apache. To enable these modules, execute the following commands:

a2enmod proxy
a2enmod proxy_http

Once this is done, open a new configuration file using nano or your favorite text editor  with the following command:

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/your_domain.conf

Add the following lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your_domain.com
ServerAlias www.your_domain.com

ProxyRequests Off
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>

ProxyPass / http://your_domain.com:8069/
ProxyPassReverse / http://your_domain.com:8069/
<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>
</VirtualHost>

Enable “your_domain.conf” configuration in Apache using:

ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/your_domain.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/your_domain.conf

Remember to replace your ‘your_domain.com’ with your actual domain name. Save the changes and restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect:

service apache2 restart

That’s it. If you followed all of the instructions properly now you should be able to access your Odoo 12 with your domain name on your Ubuntu 16.04 machine. For more information about Odoo 12, its features and configuration, please check their official documentation.

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If you decided to upgrade your Ubuntu, and plan on installing the improved Odoo 13, we have a solution for that. You can check out our guide on how to install Odoo 13 on Ubuntu 18.04, and do it one step at a time.

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