{"id":63,"date":"2013-09-01T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/installing-openerp-on-centos-6\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T01:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T01:26:13","slug":"openerp-centos-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/openerp-centos-6.html","title":{"rendered":"Installing OpenERP on CentOS 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"openerp<\/div>\n

What is OpenERP?<\/h2>\n
OpenERP is an open source full suite of Business software, and is published under the AGPL license.<\/div>\n
OpenERP contains over 700 modules such as sales management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), warehouse management, association, project management, human resources management, point of sales and around<\/div>\n

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Installing OpenERP on CentOS 6<\/h2>\n

Installing OpenERP on CentOS can be tricky due to the lack of documentations. Most of the documentations are for Ubuntu\/Debian distro.<\/p>\n

OpenERP requires Python and PostgreSQL to run.<\/p>\n

First step is to update the OS System & Packages<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
yum -y update<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Installing wget in case it’s not installed<\/span><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
yum -y install wget<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Downloading the epel-release (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) and installing the packages<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
rpm -ivh http:\/\/dl.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/6\/x86_64\/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Downloading the PostgreSQL and installing the packages<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
rpm -ivh http:\/\/yum.pgrpms.org\/9.1\/redhat\/rhel-6Server-x86_64\/pgdg-redhat91-9.1-5.noarch.rpm<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Installing Packages & Dependencies<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
yum -y install python-psycopg2 python-lxml PyXML python-setuptools libxslt-python pytz python-matplotlib python-babel python-mako python-dateutil python-psycopg2 pychart pydot python-reportlab python-devel python-imaging python-vobject hippo-canvas-python mx python-gdata python-ldap python-openid python-werkzeug python-vatnumber pygtk2 glade3 pydot python-dateutil python-matplotlib pygtk2 glade3 pydot python-dateutil python-matplotlib python python-devel python-psutil python-docutils make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel byacc flashplugin-nonfree postgresql91-libs postgresql91-server postgresql91 libxslt-devel<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Initializing PostgreSQL<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
service postgresql-9.1 initdb<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Allowing remote access to PostgreSQL<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
echo “listen_addresses = ‘*'” >> \/var\/lib\/pgsql\/9.1\/data\/postgresql.conf<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By Default, PostgreSQL refuses all connections, so we have to add the IP addresses and subnet.<\/span>
\nYou can replace 0.0.0.0\/0 by your IP address and subnet mask to allow access from a certain IP address.<\/span><\/p>\n

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echo “host all all 0.0.0.0\/0 md5” >> \/var\/lib\/pgsql\/9.1\/data\/pg_hba.conf<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Starting PostgreSQL<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
service postgresql-9.1 start<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Starting PostgreSQL after every reboot<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
chkconfig postgresql-9.1 on<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Creating PostgreSQL user and database<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
su – postgres -c “createuser –pwprompt –createdb –no-createrole –no-superuser openerp”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Downloading the Python client library for Google data APIs<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
cd \/tmp
\nwget http:\/\/gdata-python-client.googlecode.com\/files\/gdata-2.0.17.zip<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Unziping and Installing it<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
unzip gdata-2.0.17.zip
\nrm -rf gdata-2.0.17.zip
\ncd gdata*
\npython setup.py install<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0Adding OpenERP user to work with OpenERP. Never use root!<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
adduser openerp<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Creating runtime directory and log directory and changing the owner to the previous created user<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
mkdir \/var\/run\/openerp
\nmkdir \/var\/log\/openerp
\nchown openerp.openerp \/var\/run\/openerp<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If a previous version of openerp exists, remove it<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
rm -rf openerp*<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Downloading OpenERP, extracting it to a directory called “openerp”, and installing it<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
wget http:\/\/nightly.openerp.com\/7.0\/nightly\/src\/openerp-7.0-latest.tar.gz
\ntar -zxvf openerp-7.0-latest.tar.gz\u00a0 –transform ‘s!^[^\/]+($|\/)!openerp1!’
\ncd openerp
\npython setup.py install<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If OpenERP was previously installed, remove it<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
rm -rf \/usr\/local\/bin\/openerp-server<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Copy configuration files from OpenERP directory to their correct destination<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
cp openerp-server \/usr\/local\/bin
\ncp install\/openerp-server.init \/etc\/init.d\/openerp
\ncp install\/openerp-server.conf \/etc
\nchmod u+x \/etc\/init.d\/openerp<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Start OpenERP after every reboot<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
chkconfig openerp on<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Start OpenERP<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
service openerp start<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s it!
\nYou should be able to access OpenERP on your server’s IP, port 8069
\nxxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8069<\/p>\n

And you should see a screen like this:<\/p>\n

\"OpenERP<\/div>\n

Have some questions? Leave us a comment below!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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