Easy way to install Odoo

If you are planning to install odoo by yourself there are many ways to install odoo. you can install odoo manually or use a script.

If you wanted to learn how to install odoo manually you can follow my tutorial on "Odoo 10 install". using this tutorial you will install python library manually and do the required configuration in Postgres to run odoo with a swift.

Another way is to use the script to install the odoo using this "easy way to install odoo",  in this article Tech Heliconia has briefly explained how you can install without messing with the odoo configuration and init script. the script will manage everything that odoo needs to run.
How easy it is, just download the script >  Do the required modification(if you are expert in it) and run the script, that's it.

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Dummy fields in odoo.

Dummy fields is inherited from function class, that means it is like search functional field.
when you use dummy field no value is stored in database.
Dummy fields can be used for backward compatibility of certain field.
Suppose you don't need phone field in customer model anymore, but some other modules still have a reference to this field. So, instead of deleting field, you can replace it by a dummy field.

In Odoo Dummy field always return Null value.

Odoo Documents List

Here are the list of Official/Nonofficial Odoo Documents that are available on web.

Odoo Version 8:

• A Official odoo v8 Developer docs
• Tutorials
• Setting Up
• Reference
• Web Service API
• Business Mementoes
• Odoo v8 Basic Configuration Guide 
• Odoo v8 Database Scheme 
• Odoo's New v8 API Guidelines 
• OpenERP v8 Book
• Official odoo How-To docs

OpenERP Version 7:

• Official OpenERP v7 docs
• Official OpenERP v7 Web Developers docs
• Official OpenERP Technical Memento v0.7.4
• OpenERP v7 User docs

OpenERP Version 6.1:

• Official OpenERP v6.1 docs
• Official OpenERP Technical Memento v0.6.5_Draft
• Drive your Sales and Marketing Activities with OpenERP
• Integrate You Logistic Processes with OpenERP
• Open Object Developer Book
• Open Source Accounting with OpenERP
• OpenERP Evaluation with SAP as Reference
• OpenERP for Accounting and Financial Management
• OpenERP for Retail and Industrial Management
• OpenERP, a modern approach to Integrated Business Management
• Streamline Your Manufacturing Processes with OpenERP

Create & Extract tar.gz in Linux

In Linux tar.gz is the is common format for compressed archive. while doing odoo server administration it is required to download the addons from server to local system.

Compress folder/file to compressed archive

Command to compress the folder and files.

tar -czf tar_file_name.tar.gz file_or_folder_to_archive

Here,

• tar - the tar command.
• c - create new archive.
• z - compress the archive using gzip.
• f - use archive file.
• tar_file_name.tar.gz - the name of the tar.gz to create.
• file_or_folder_to_archive - the name of the folder we want to archive.

example of tar command to compress odoo addons

tar -czf odoo_addons.tar.gz addons

Extract folder/file to compressed archive

Command to Extract the compressed archive.

tar -zxvf compressed_file.tar.gz

Here,

• -z : Work on gzip compression automatically when reading archives.
• -x : Extract archives.
• -v : Produce verbose output i.e. display progress and extracted file list on screen.
• -f : Read the archive from the archive to the specified file. In this example, read backups.tar.gz archive.
• -t : List the files in the archive.

example to extract the compressed archive.

tar -zxvf odoo_addons.tar.gz

Odoo Installation Script for Ubuntu

Here is the Odoo Installation Script. It include the basic Odoo development environment setup in one script.

Create Odoo Development Environment on Ubuntu

After choosing yourOS and IDE you can move to develop odoo modules.

For that you need to install some required python packages & PostgreSQL & VCS. It is too easy to set up a development environment for odoo. Here are the easy steps.

OS and IDE for Odoo devlopment

If have decided to learn Odoo from the scratch and have basic knowledge of Python, XML, OOP and PostgreSQL, then you need to setup the OS and IDE on your machine. this post will help you to choose OS and IDE for odoo Devlopment.