How To Install and Configure Odoo14.

Step 1 : Update Server--> First, update your server and then upgrade it. It may ask for password then enter your password

$ sudo apt-get update                     
$ sudo apt-get upgrade -y

This Commands will update the installed packages.
Step 2 : Create Odoo User in Ubuntu--> Now create a user for Odoo who can access the Odoo and can make changes in it.
                        
$ sudo adduser -system -home=/opt/odoo -group odooUser

This will create a new account to use for Odoo service.                    

Step 3 : Install PostgreSQL Server -- > As we know that PostgreSQL is required as the database server for Odoo. So we need to install it:

$ sudo apt-get install postgresql -y                  

Step 4 : Create Odoo user for PostgreSQL -- > For using the postgres sql server we need a user, The below command will add a new role odoo in PostgreSQL server.

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

Step 5 : Install Python Dependencies --> The Below code will install all the required packages in system and also create virtual environment.

$ 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
                    
Step 6 : 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            

Step 7 : Install other required packages
                   
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs npm -y
                                        
$ sudo npm install -g rtlcss                 

Step 8 : 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          

Step 9 : Create Log directory

$ sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo
                                           
$ sudo chown odoo:odoo /var/log/odoo
                    
Step 10 :Install Odoo --> We can download the Odoo from the Github repository. So clone it on your system. Using below Command.
                      
$ sudo apt-get install git
         
$ sudo git clone --depth 1 --branch 14.0 https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo /odoo/odoo-server                   

Step 11 : 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 
                    
Step 12 : Now Start Odoo
                       
$ sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash
                                           
$ cd /odoo/odoo-server
                                        
$ ./odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo-server.conf
                    

Now your odoo instance is up and running. 

Go to web browser and access your odoo at localhost:8069