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.

1. Install required python library for odoo

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dateutil python-feedparser python-ldap python-libxslt1 python-lxml python-mako python-openid python-psycopg2 python-pybabel python-pychart python-pydot python-pyparsing python-reportlab python-simplejson python-tz python-vatnumber python-vobject python-webdav python-werkzeug python-xlwt python-yaml python-zsi python-docutils python-psutil python-mock python-unittest2 python-jinja2 python-pypdf python-decorator python-requests python-passlib python-pil -y

2. Install wkhtmltopdf for 32 or 64 bit system

for 32 bit:

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wkhtmltopdf/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-precise-i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-precise-i386.deb
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin

for 64 bit:

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wkhtmltopdf/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-precise-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-precise-amd64.deb
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin

3. Install and configure PostgreSQL for odoo development(do not install postgres 8.4 for odoo v8)

sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3 pgadmin3

After installation create a PostgreSQL user same as your system user.(it is for development environment only). here is a example using 'software' user

sudo su postgres
createuser -d -S -R software
now change the password of created user using psql
psql
alter user software with password 'mypassword';

Now you are almost done with your development environment. now you need to get the odoo source from the github.

4. Get Odoo Source from Github.

install git
sudo apt-get install git
sudo git clone --branch 8.0 https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo /home/software/odoo/

It will clone the odoo branch from the github on /home/software/odoo/ path.

Now using this odoo environment you can start your odoo development. I will write a simple bash script which will perform all the steps in one file.

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