Odoo 17 Installation on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Odoo 17 installation on Digital Ocean with Ubuntu 22.04

Detailed Guide to Installing Odoo 17 on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu 22.04 Droplet

Odoo is a comprehensive and flexible open-source business management software suite that includes a wide range of applications. This guide provides a detailed, step-by-step tutorial on installing Odoo 17 on a Digital Ocean droplet running Ubuntu 22.04.

Before starting the installation process, ensure you have the following prerequisites:

– A Digital Ocean account.

– A droplet running Ubuntu 22.04.

– Access to the server via SSH.

– Basic knowledge of the command line.

Step-by-Step Installation

Log in to Digital Ocean and create a new droplet with Ubuntu 22.04 as the operating system.

Choose the droplet specifications based on your company’s size and requirements. For Odoo, a droplet with at least 2GB of RAM is recommended.

Set the authentication method to a password and ensure you create a secure password (e.g., `PassF@1or17s`).

Use SSH to connect to your droplet:

ssh root@your_droplet_ip

Ensure you are running the correct version of Ubuntu:

lsb_release -a

Update the package lists and upgrade the system packages:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Create a dedicated system user for running Odoo:

sudo adduser –system –home=/opt/odoo –group odoo

Odoo requires Python 3.10 and some additional dependencies:

sudo apt install python3.10 python3-pip

Install all necessary dependencies for Odoo:

sudo apt install build-essential wget git python3-dev python3-venv libfreetype6-dev libxml2-dev libzip-dev libsasl2-dev python3-setuptools libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libpq-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libtiff5-dev libopenjp2-7-dev libffi-dev fontconfig xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base nodejs npm pgcli libxmlsec1-dev libxmlsec1-openssl -y

Odoo uses PostgreSQL as its database:

sudo su – postgres

createuser –createdb –username postgres –no-createrole –no-superuser –pwprompt odoo

pgcli

ALTER USER odoo WITH SUPERUSER;

\q

exit

Odoo requires `wkhtmltopdf` for printing PDF reports:

sudo apt install wkhtmltopdf -y

Switch to the `odoo` user and clone the Odoo 17 repository:

sudo su – odoo -s /bin/bash

git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo –depth 1 –branch 17.0 –single-branch .

exit

Install required Python packages and Odoo dependencies:

sudo pip3 install –upgrade pip

sudo pip3 install cffi==1.15.0 testresources Pillow==9.0.1 xlrd==1.2.0 reportlab==3.6.8 numpy

sudo pip3 install -r /opt/odoo/requirements.txt

sudo apt-get install -y npm

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

sudo npm install -g less less-plugin-clean-css

sudo apt-get install -y node-less

Create and edit the Odoo configuration file:

sudo cp /opt/odoo/debian/odoo.conf /etc/odoo.conf

sudo nano /etc/odoo.conf

Replace the contents with:

[options]

; This is the password that allows database operations:

admin_passwd = admin

db_host = False

db_port = False

db_user = odoo

db_password = <your_postgresql_password>

addons_path = /opt/odoo/addons

logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo.log

http_port=8069

Set the appropriate permissions:

sudo chown odoo: /etc/odoo.conf

sudo chmod 640 /etc/odoo.conf

sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo

sudo chown odoo:root /var/log/odoo

Create a systemd service file for Odoo:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/odoo.service

Add the following configuration:

[Unit]

Description=Odoo

Documentation=http://www.odoo.com

[Service]

Type=simple

User=odoo

ExecStart=/opt/odoo/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo.conf

[Install]

WantedBy=default.target

Set permissions and start the service:

sudo chmod 755 /etc/systemd/system/odoo.service

sudo chown root: /etc/systemd/system/odoo.service

sudo systemctl start odoo.service

sudo systemctl status odoo.service

Open your web browser and visit the following URL to access Odoo:

http://<your_domain_or_IP_address>:8069

Monitor Odoo logs to ensure everything is running smoothly:

sudo tail -f /var/log/odoo/odoo.log

Enable the Odoo service to start on system boot:

sudo systemctl enable odoo.service

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Odoo 17 on a Digital Ocean droplet with Ubuntu 22.04. This guide covered the creation of a droplet, installation of necessary dependencies, configuration of PostgreSQL, and setting up Odoo to run as a systemd service. If you encounter any issues, refer to the Odoo logs and adjust the configuration as needed. For additional configurations like enabling Let’s Encrypt SSL and configuring Nginx for performance optimization, you may need to perform further steps not covered in this basic installation guide.

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