Install Odoo from source

Install Git - sudo apt-get install git
Install Github CLI - sudo apt-get install gh
Use git to install odoo community - gh repo clone odoo/odoo
Install postgres - sudo apt-get install postgresql-12 postgresql-client-12
Switch user to postgres - sudo su - postgres
Create postgres user - createuser -- createdb -- username postgres -- no - createrole -- pwprompt {user} - user is the database user that you want to setup

Install Dependencies:

sudo apt install python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev \
libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev libopenjp2-7-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev \
liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev libxcb1-dev libpq-dev python3-pypdf2 python3-decorator python3-polib \
python3-html2text python3-docutils python3-libsass

Install pipenv - pip install pipenv

Remove the following from the pipfile:

Pypiwin32 (this may be linux specific)

There is a bug currently where pyopenssl needs to be set

pyopenssl = "==22.0.0"

Use pipenv to setup virtual env with requirements - pipenv install

Use the following run.conf

[options]
logfile=odoo.log
admin_passwd=test
xmlrpc_port=8070
db_host=localhost
db_maxconn=64
db_user={user}
db_password={password}
db_port=5432
addons_path=addons

Where user and password are the postgres items that you’ve setup

Add the following script to pipenv to start the server

[scripts]
server = "bash - c rm - f odoo.log && python ./odoo-bin - c run.conf'"

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