how to install odoo 14 in ubuntu 20.04

Odoo is an open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that includes customer relationship management (CRM), e-commerce, accounting, billing, inventory management, project management, warehouse management, financial management, manufacturing, and purchasing. In this blog, you will know the steps in installation and configuration of Odoo 14 in your Ubuntu 20.04

• The first thing to do is to update your server:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade -y

• Create Odoo User in Ubuntu

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

• Install PostgreSQL Server

sudo apt-get install postgresql -y

• Create Odoo user for PostgreSQL

sudo su - postgres -c "createuser -s odoo" 2> /dev/null || true

• Install Python Dependencie

sudo apt-get install git python3 python3-pip build-essential wget python3-dev python3-venv python3-wheel libxslt-dev libzip-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev python3-setuptools node-less libjpeg-dev gdebi -y

• Install Python PIP Dependencies

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libffi-dev 

sudo -H pip3 install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/odoo/odoo/master/requirements.txt 

• Install other required packages

sudo apt-get install nodejs npm -y

sudo npm install -g rtlcss

• Install Wkhtmltopdf

sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi

sudo wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.bionic_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.bionic_amd64.deb

sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin/wkhtmltoimage

sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf

If it resulted to error make sure that you already install wkhtmltopdf for it to be fixed.

• Create a Log Directory

sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo

sudo chown odoo:odoo /var/log/odoo

• Install Odoo

sudo apt-get install git

sudo git clone --depth 1 --branch 14.0 https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo /odoo/odoo-       server

• Setting permissions on home

sudo chown -R odoo:odoo /odoo/*

• Create server config file

sudo touch /etc/odoo-server.conf

sudo su root -c "printf '[options]\n; This is the password that allows database operations:\n' >> /etc/odoo-server.conf"

 sudo su root -c "printf 'admin_passwd = admin\n' >> /etc/odoo-server.conf"

sudo su root -c "printf 'xmlrpc_port = 8069\n' >> /etc/odoo-server.conf"

sudo su root -c "printf 'logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log\n' >> /etc/odoo-server.conf"

sudo su root -c "printf 'addons_path=/odoo/odoo-server/addons\n' >> /etc/odoo-    server.conf"

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

sudo chmod 640 /etc/odoo-server.conf

• Start the Odoo

sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash

sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash

./odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo-server.conf

Now you can go to your browser and access Odoo on your localhost.