Odoo is an open source software used as business purposes like crm, invoice, ecommerce, billing, accounting, project management and inventory management and more. Now I want to share how to install Odoo 16 on Ubuntu 22.04 server.

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Operating System:

 Ubuntu22.04 LTS

IP Address :

 10.66.10.8

RAM :

 2GB

Disk :

 50GB

Service :

 Odoo

Host Name :

 odoo.technologyrss.local
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Step #01: Must be server update and upgrade then run some dependency package.

root@odoo:~# lsb_release -a && ip r
root@odoo:~# apt update && sudo apt upgrade
root@odoo:~# sudo apt install -y git wget nodejs npm python3 build-essential libzip-dev python3-dev libxslt1-dev python3-pip libldap2-dev python3-wheel libsasl2-dev python3-venv python3-setuptools node-less libjpeg-dev xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base libpq-dev libffi-dev fontconfig

Install pdf generator package.

root@odoo:~# sudo npm install -g rtlcss
root@odoo:~# wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6.1-2/wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-2.jammy_amd64.deb
root@odoo:~# sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-2.jammy_amd64.deb

Step #02: Add user and install database postgresql.

root@odoo:~# sudo adduser --system --group --home=/opt/odoo --shell=/bin/bash odoo
root@odoo:~# sudo apt install postgresql -y
root@odoo:~# service postgresql start
root@odoo:~# service postgresql status
root@odoo:~# sudo su - postgres -c "createuser -s odoo"
root@odoo:~# cd /opt/odoo

Download odoo latest branch from below link.

root@odoo:/opt/odoo# git clone https://github.com/odoo/odoo.git --depth 1 --branch 16.0 --single-branch odoo-server

Setup permission and going to server location folder.

root@odoo:~# sudo chown -R odoo:odoo /opt/odoo/odoo-server
root@odoo:~# cd /opt/odoo/odoo-server

Active venv terminal

root@odoo:/opt/odoo/odoo-server# python3 -m venv venv
root@odoo:/opt/odoo/odoo-server# source venv/bin/activate
(venv) root@odoo:/opt/odoo/odoo-server# pip3 install wheel

Step #03: Install requirements.txt file.

(venv) root@odoo:/opt/odoo-odoo-server# pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Then exit venv terminal using below command.

(venv) root@odoo:/opt/odoo/odoo-server# deactivate

Setup odoo user permission.

root@odoo:~# sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo
root@odoo:~# sudo chown odoo:odoo /var/log/odoo
root@odoo:~# sudo chmod 777 /var/log/odoo

Step #04: Create odoo server conf file.

root@odoo:~# sudo nano /etc/odoo-server.conf

Then insert below all lines into this file. This file contain odoo master password its needed when create database from browser.

[options]
admin_passwd = P@ss$123
db_user = odoo
addons_path = /opt/odoo/odoo-server/addons
logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log
log_level  = debug

Setup file user permission.

sudo chown odoo:odoo /etc/odoo-server.conf

Create odoo service file.

root@odoo:~# sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/odoo.service

Then insert below all lines into this file.

[Unit]
Description=Odoo 16.0 Service
Requires=postgresql.service
After=network.target postgresql.service
 
[Service]
Type=simple
SyslogIdentifier=odoo
PermissionsStartOnly=true
User=odoo
Group=odoo
ExecStart=/opt/odoo/odoo-server/venv/bin/python3 /opt/odoo/odoo-server/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo-server.conf
StandardOutput=journal+console
 
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now reload deamon.

root@odoo:~# sudo systemctl daemon-reload
root@odoo:~# sudo systemctl enable --now odoo.service
root@odoo:~# sudo systemctl status odoo.service

Now going to your server ip with port then create database and import demo data.

http://10.66.10.8:8069 See as like below image, Now input some info like master password, database name, email, account password, phone number, country etc. Then click check mark Demo data, then click Create database and wait 1 min for installation process done.

When installation process done then coming login page as like below.

If needed more help so please see my YouTube channel video for more details.

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