Joyal Shah

Installation stpes on ubuntu 12.04 in brief: Step 1. Update Ubuntu with latest version and patches sudo apt-get update Step 2. Create the OpenERP user that will own and run the application sudo adduser --system --home=/opt/openerp --group openerp         **command to change user (verify you are able to login with openerp user or not):         sudo su - openerp -s /bin/bash         exit                              ** logout from openerp user and continue installation steps:          Step 3. Install and configure the database server, PostgreSQL     sudo apt-get install postgresql After installing postgresql swith user to postgres and     sudo su - postgres Create 'openerp' user in postgres   ...

Need 2 files to make daemon services on Ubuntu for openerp-server: openerp-server, openerp-server.conf  i)  openerp-server startup script, path: /etc/init.d/openerp-server # OpenERP Server Startup script # Provides: openerp-server # Required-Start: $syslog # Required-Stop: $syslog # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: OpenERP Server - the server # Description: OpenERP is a complete ERP and CRM software ## END INIT INFO PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DESC=openerp-server NAME=openerp-server DAEMON=/home/joyal/openerp-erver5.0.14/bin/openerp-server.py # Specify the user name (Your Operating System user). USER="joyal" # Specifty an alternate config file (Default: ~/.openerp-serverrc) CONFIGFILE="/etc/openerp-server.conf" # pidfile PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid # Additional options that are passed to the Daemon DAEMON_OPTS="-c $CONFIGFILE" # Exit if the pack...

Here I am describing some quicksteps to setup openerp in your fresh ubuntu OS.   For more detail regarding any step, you can check openerp installation guide . 3 simple steps to follow: A) Necessary libraries for oepnerp server-gtkclient:      key in below given lines on gnome-terminal of ubuntu:      $ sudo su      $ apt-get install python-setuptools      $ apt-get install python-dev      $ apt-get install build-essential      $ apt-get install python-lxml      $ apt-get install python-psycopg2      $ apt-get install python-reportlab      $ apt-get install python-matplotlib      $ apt-get install python-pychart      $ apt-get install python-hippocanvas      $ apt-get install bzr B) Postgres Installation:  ...