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Installing odoo 13 in Ubuntu: Source Install

Source Installation means downloading and running odoo from the source code instead of running as an installed package. For source installation we need to install the PostgreSQL database, python 3(3.6 or later) and other packages. Follow the steps below:

• Download odoo community version from
• Nightly Server
• GitHub
• Official Download Page
• Install Python 3.6 or later
• Verify also that pip3 is installed for the above python version
• Install PostgreSQL by running the following command
• sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-client
• Run the following command to create a user
• sudo -u postgres createuser -s $USER
• Install dependencies by running the following command
• sudo apt install python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev
• Install odoo dependencies listed in the requirements.txt file of odoo server downloaded in first step
• Navigate to odoo community edition path
• Run pip3 install setuptools wheel
• Run pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• Install rtlcss
• sudo npm install -g rtlcss
• Start odoo server by
• ./odoo-bin