Odoo development setup with Ubuntu and

PyCharm
by Igor | Jun 23, 2015 | Linux, Odoo, Programming | 0 comments
It is possible to work on the local computer (workstation) with Ubuntu, local virtual
machine or in a server over the network.
I prefer to do the development work in my personal workstation, using my favorite text
editor or IDE.
So this is my development setup:
VirtualBox + Ubuntu + PyCharm
VirtualBox works on Linux, Windows and OS X so i can move VM’s from one platform to
another.
The assumption is that you have installed Ubuntu desktop.
You can download and install Ubuntu from this location:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/thank-
you/?version=14.04.2&architecture=amd64
You can download and install VirtualBox from this location:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
The Ubuntu installation process has already guided you in the creation of a user.
You will use that user to setup you development environment.
First, make sure you are logged in as the user created during the installation process, and
not as root.
Assuming your user is netjunky:), you can confirm your home directory and user with the
following commands:

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echo $HOME

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whoami

Now we can install Odoo directly from the GitHub repository and install our favorite IDE.
1.) Install system updates

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sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y

2.) Install Git

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sudo apt-get install git -y

3.) Install PostgreSQL Server

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sudo apt-get install postgresql -y

4.) Install Python dependencies

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sudo apt-get install python-dateutil python-feedparser python-ldap python-libxslt1

python-lxml python-mako python-openid python-psycopg2 python-pybabel python-pychart
python-pydot python-pyparsing python-reportlab python-simplejson python-tz python-
vatnumber python-vobject python-webdav python-werkzeug python-xlwt python-yaml
python-zsi python-docutils python-psutil python-mock python-unittest2 python-jinja2
python-pypdf python-decorator python-requests python-passlib python-pil python-pip -y

5.) Create a directory to work in. This will create work directory for your
projects ~/projects/odoo-dev

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mkdir ~/projects
mkdir ~/projects/odoo-dev

6.) Go into our work directory

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cd ~/projects/odoo-dev

7.) Get Odoo source code from gitub (-b option asks to explicitly download the 8.0 branch
of Odoo)

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git clone https://github.com/odoo/odoo.git -b 8.0
8.) Install Odoo system dependencies. Just one more check with odoo.py script. I did not
bother to investigate but if you try to run this command before step 4. you will get errors
about missing python dependencies.

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./odoo/odoo.py setup_pg

9.) Create PostgreSQL superuser

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./odoo/odoo.py setup_pg

10.) Install wkhtml and place on correct place for Odoo

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sudo wget
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wkhtmltopdf/archive/0.12.1/wkhtmltox-
0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin
sudo rm -rf wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb

To start an Odoo server instance, just run odoo.py:

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~/projects/odoo-dev/odoo/odoo.py

Odoo server is ready and we can now install PyCharm or some other favorite text editor or
IDE.

To install PyCharm community edition:

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sudo wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc)-getdeb
apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pycharm -y

Run PyCharm

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cd /usr/share/pycharm/bin
./pycharm.sh

Or you can skip all the steps and run this script:)
https://gist.github.com/netjunky-hub/ac65b479fc4a306ae6bc
Make sure you are not using root (don’t use sudo to run the script).
WARNING!
Script will download and configure Odoo, remove Libre office and install Apache Open
Office, install useful tools like meld, pgadmin3 and poedit, download and install Odoo
templates for PyCharm, create directories for custom config and custom addons.
You can adjust script to fits your needs.
Happy coding:)