Installing Odoo

There are multiple ways to install Odoo, or not install it at all, depending on the intended use case.

This documents attempts to describe most of the installation options.

Online
The easiest way to use Odoo in production or to try it.
Packaged installers
Suitable for testing Odoo, developing modules and can be used for long-term production use with additional deployment and maintenance work.
Source Install
Provides greater flexibility: e.g. allow multiple running Odoo versions on the same system. Good for developing modules, can be used as base for production deployment.
Docker
If you usually use docker for development or deployment, an official docker base image is available.

Editions

There are two different Editions of Odoo: the Community and Enterprise versions. Using the Enterprise version is possible on our SaaS and accessing the code is restricted to Enterprise customers and partners. The Community version is freely available to anyone.

If you already use the Community version and wish to upgrade to Enterprise, please refer to From Community to Enterprise (except for Source Install).

Online

Demo

To simply get a quick idea of Odoo, demo instances are available. They are shared instances which only live for a few hours, and can be used to browse around and try things out with no commitment.

Demo instances require no local installation, just a web browser.

SaaS

Trivial to start with, fully managed and migrated by Odoo S.A., Odoo’s SaaS provides private instances and starts out free. It can be used to discover and test Odoo and do non-code customizations (i.e. incompatible with custom modules or the Odoo Apps Store) without having to install it locally.

Can be used for both testing Odoo and long-term production use.

Like demo instances, SaaS instances require no local installation, a web browser is sufficient.

Packaged installers

Odoo provides packaged installers for Windows, deb-based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, …) and RPM-based distributions (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, …) for both the Community and Enterprise versions.

These packages automatically set up all dependencies (for the Community version), but may be difficult to keep up-to-date.

Official Community packages with all relevant dependency requirements are available on our nightly server. Both Communtiy and Enterprise packages can be downloaded from our download page (you must to be logged in as a paying customer or partner to download the Enterprise packages).

Windows

  1. Download the installer from our nightly server (Community only) or the Windows installer from the download page (any edition).

  2. Execute the downloaded file.

  3. Accept the UAC prompt.
  4. Go through the various installation steps.

Odoo will automatically be started at the end of the installation.

Linux

Debian/Ubuntu

Odoo 13.0 ‘deb’ package currently supports Debian Buster, Ubuntu 18.04 or above.

Prepare

Odoo needs a PostgreSQL server to run properly. The default configuration for the Odoo ‘deb’ package is to use the PostgreSQL server on the same host as your Odoo instance. Execute the following command in order to install the PostgreSQL server:

$ sudo apt install postgresql -y
Repository

Odoo S.A. provides a repository that can be used with Debian and Ubuntu distributions. It can be used to install Odoo Community Edition by executing the following commands as root:

# wget -O - https://nightly.odoo.com/odoo.key | apt-key add -
# echo "deb http://nightly.odoo.com/13.0/nightly/deb/ ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/odoo.list
# apt-get update && apt-get install odoo

You can then use the usual [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] command to keep your installation up-to-date.

At this moment, there is no nightly repository for the Enterprise Edition.

Deb Package

Instead of using the repository as described above, the ‘deb’ packages for both the Community and Enterprise editions can be downloaded from the official download page.

Next, execute the following commands as root:

# dpkg -i <path_to_installation_package> # this probably fails with missing dependencies
# apt-get install -f # should install the missing dependencies
# dpkg -i <path_to_installation_package>

This will install Odoo as a service, create the necessary PostgreSQL user and automatically start the server.

Fedora

Odoo 13.0 ‘rpm’ package supports Fedora 30.

Prepare

Odoo needs a PostgreSQL server to run properly. Make sure that the [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] command is available and well configured and, only then, execute the following command in order to install the PostgreSQL server:

$ sudo dnf install -y postgresql-server
$ sudo postgresql-setup --initdb --unit postgresql
$ sudo systemctl enable postgresql
$ sudo systemctl start postgresql
Repository

Odoo S.A. provides a repository that can be used with the Fedora distributions. It can be used to install Odoo Community Edition by executing the following commands:

$ sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://nightly.odoo.com/13.0/nightly/rpm/odoo.repo
$ sudo dnf install -y odoo
$ sudo systemctl enable odoo
$ sudo systemctl start odoo
RPM package

Instead of using the repository as described above, the ‘rpm’ packages for both the Community and Enterprise editions can be downloaded from the official download page.

Once downloaded, the package can be installed using the ‘dnf’ package manager:

$ sudo dnf localinstall odoo_13.0.latest.noarch.rpm
$ sudo systemctl enable odoo
$ sudo systemctl start odoo

Source Install

The source “installation” is really about not installing Odoo, and running it directly from source instead.

This can be more convenient for module developers as the Odoo source is more easily accessible than using packaged installation (for information or to build this documentation and have it available offline).

It also makes starting and stopping Odoo more flexible and explicit than the services set up by the packaged installations, and allows overriding settings using command-line parameters without needing to edit a configuration file.

Finally it provides greater control over the system’s set up, and allows to more easily keep (and run) multiple versions of Odoo side-by-side.

Windows

Fetch the sources

There are two ways to obtain the source code of Odoo: as a zip archive or through git.

Archive

Community Edition:

Enterprise Edition:

Git

The following requires git to be installed on your machine and that you have basic knowledge of git commands.

Community Edition:

C:\> git clone https://github.com/odoo/odoo.git

Enterprise Edition: (see Editions to get access)

C:\> git clone https://github.com/odoo/enterprise.git

Prepare

Python

Odoo requires Python 3.6 or later to run. Visit Python’s download page to download and install the latest version of Python 3 on your machine.

During installation, check Add Python 3 to PATH, then click Customize Installation and make sure that pip is checked.

PostgreSQL

Odoo uses PostgreSQL as database management system. Download and install the latest version of PostgreSQL.

By default, the only user is [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] but Odoo forbids connecting as [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference], so you need to create a new PostgreSQL user:

  1. Add PostgreSQL’s [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] directory (by default: [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference]) to your [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference].

  2. Create a postgres user with a password using the pg admin gui:

    1. Open pgAdmin.
    2. Double-click the server to create a connection.
    3. Select Object ‣ Create ‣ Login/Group Role.
    4. Enter the username in the Role Name field (e.g. [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference]).
    5. Open the Definition tab and enter the password (e.g. odoo), then click Save.
    6. Open the Privileges tab and switch Can login? to [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] and Create database? to [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference].
Dependencies

Before installing the dependencies, you must download and install the Build Tools for Visual Studio. When prompted, select C++ build tools in the Workloads tab and install them.

Odoo dependencies are listed in the [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] file located at the root of the Odoo community directory.

Navigate to the path of your Odoo Community installation ([UNKNOWN NODE title_reference]) and run pip on the requirements file in a terminal with Administrator privileges:

C:\> cd \CommunityPath
C:\> pip install setuptools wheel
C:\> pip install -r requirements.txt

For languages with right-to-left interface (such as Arabic or Hebrew), the package [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] is needed:

  1. Download and install nodejs.

  2. Install [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference]:

    C:\> npm install -g rtlcss
  3. Edit the System Environment’s variable [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] to add the folder where [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] is located (typically: [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference]).

Running Odoo

Once all dependencies are set up, Odoo can be launched by running [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference], the command-line interface of the server. It is located at the root of the Odoo Community directory.

To configure the server, you can either specify command-line arguments or a configuration file.

Common necessary configurations are:

  • PostgreSQL user and password.
  • Custom addon paths beyond the defaults, to load your own modules.

A typical way to run the server would be:

C:\> cd CommunityPath/
C:\> python odoo-bin -r dbuser -w dbpassword --addons-path=addons -d mydb

Where [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] is the path of the Odoo Community installation, [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] is the PostgreSQL login, [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] is the PostgreSQL password and [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] is the default database to serve on [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference]. You can add other directory paths separated by a comma to addons at the end of the addons-path option.

Linux

Fetch the sources

There are two ways to obtain the source code of Odoo: as a zip archive or through git.

Archive

Community Edition:

Enterprise Edition:

Git

The following requires git to be installed on your machine and that you have basic knowledge of git commands.

Community Edition:

$ git clone https://github.com/odoo/odoo.git

Enterprise Edition: (see Editions to get access)

$ git clone https://github.com/odoo/enterprise.git

Prepare

Python

Odoo requires Python 3.6 or later to run. Use your package manager to download and install Python 3 on your machine if it is not already done.

PostgreSQL

Odoo uses PostgreSQL as database management system. Use your package manager to download and install the latest version of PostgreSQL.

On Debian/Unbuntu, it can be achieved by executing the following:

$ sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-client

By default, the only user is [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] but Odoo forbids connecting as [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference], so you need to create a new PostgreSQL user:

$ sudo -u postgres createuser -s $USER
$ createdb $USER
Dependencies

For libraries using native code, it is necessary to install development tools and native dependencies before the Python dependencies of Odoo. They are available in [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] or [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] packages for Python, PostgreSQL, libxml2, libxslt1, libevent, libsasl2 and libldap2.

On Debian/Unbuntu, the following command should install all the required libraries:

$ sudo apt install python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev

Odoo dependencies are listed in the [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] file located at the root of the Odoo community directory.

Navigate to the path of your Odoo Community installation ([UNKNOWN NODE title_reference]) and run pip on the requirements file:

$ cd /CommunityPath
$ pip3 install setuptools wheel
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

For languages with right-to-left interface (such as Arabic or Hebrew), the package [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] is needed:

  1. Download and install nodejs and npm with your package manager.

  2. Install [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference]:

    $ sudo npm install -g rtlcss

Running Odoo

Once all dependencies are set up, Odoo can be launched by running [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference], the command-line interface of the server. It is located at the root of the Odoo Community directory.

To configure the server, you can either specify command-line arguments or a configuration file.

Common necessary configurations are:

  • PostgreSQL user and password. Odoo has no defaults beyond psycopg2’s defaults: connects over a UNIX socket on port [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] with the current user and no password.
  • Custom addon paths beyond the defaults, to load your own modules.

A typical way to run the server would be:

$ cd /CommunityPath
$ python3 odoo-bin --addons-path=addons -d mydb

Where [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] is the path of the Odoo Community installation and [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] is the default database to serve on [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference]. You can add other directory paths separated by a comma to addons at the end of the addons-path option.

Mac OS

Fetch the sources

There are two ways to obtain the source code of Odoo: as a zip archive or through git.

Archive

Community Edition:

Enterprise Edition:

Git

The following requires git to be installed on your machine and that you have basic knowledge of git commands.

Community Edition:

$ git clone https://github.com/odoo/odoo.git

Enterprise Edition: (see Editions to get access)

$ git clone https://github.com/odoo/enterprise.git

Prepare

Python

Odoo requires Python 3.6 or later to run. Use your preferred package manager (homebrew, macports) to download and install Python 3 on your machine if it is not already done.

PostgreSQL

Odoo uses PostgreSQL as database management system. Use postgres.app to download and install the latest version of PostgreSQL.

By default, the only user is [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] but Odoo forbids connecting as [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference], so you need to create a new PostgreSQL user:

$ sudo -u postgres createuser -s $USER
$ createdb $USER
Dependencies

Odoo dependencies are listed in the [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] file located at the root of the Odoo community directory.

Navigate to the path of your Odoo Community installation ([UNKNOWN NODE title_reference]) and run pip on the requirements file:

$ cd /CommunityPath
$ pip3 install setuptools wheel
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

For languages with right-to-left interface (such as Arabic or Hebrew), the package [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] is needed:

  1. Download and install nodejs with your preferred package manager (homebrew, macports).

  2. Install [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference]:

    $ sudo npm install -g rtlcss

Running Odoo

Once all dependencies are set up, Odoo can be launched by running [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference], the command-line interface of the server. It is located at the root of the Odoo Community directory.

To configure the server, you can either specify command-line arguments or a configuration file.

Common necessary configurations are:

  • PostgreSQL user and password. Odoo has no defaults beyond psycopg2’s defaults: connects over a UNIX socket on port [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] with the current user and no password.
  • Custom addon paths beyond the defaults, to load your own modules.

A typical way to run the server would be:

$ cd /CommunityPath
$ python3 odoo-bin --addons-path=addons -d mydb

Where [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] is the path of the Odoo Community installation and [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference] is the default database to serve on [UNKNOWN NODE title_reference]. You can add other directory paths separated by a comma to addons at the end of the addons-path option.

Docker

The full documentation on how to use Odoo with Docker can be found on the official Odoo docker image page.