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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition. We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Installing dependencies


When using a Debian distribution, by default your login is root with administrator powers, and your Command Prompt shows #. On Ubuntu systems, the root account is disabled, and the initial user configured during the installation process is a sudoer, meaning that it is allowed to use the sudo command to run commands with root privileges.

First, we should update the package index and then perform an upgrade to ensure that all installed programs are up to date:

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

Next, we will install the PostgreSQL database and make our user a database superuser:

$ sudo apt-get install postgresql -y
$ sudo su -c "createuser -s $(whoami)" postgres

We will be running Odoo from source, but before that, we need to install the required dependencies. These are the Debian packages required:

$ sudo apt-get install git python3-pip python3-dev -y
$ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libevent-dev \
libpq-dev libjpeg-dev poppler-utils -y # for...