Install Odoo 8 on a CentOS 7 VPS

June 3, 2022September 25, 2014 by Jeff Wilson

Odoo is a suite of business applications, organized in 6 groups: front-end applications, sales management applications, business operations applications, marketing applications, human resources and productivity applications.
The installation of Odoo 8 on a CentOS 7 VPS should take about ten minutes if you follow the very easy steps described below.

Remove MariaDB from your server:

yum remove mariadb mariadb-server

Ensure that your yum package repository is up to date and all installed packages have been upgraded with the latest bug fixes and security patches using the following commands:

yum clean all
yum update

Install PostgreSQL and PHP PostgreSQL extension:

yum install postgresql-libs postgresql-server postgresql php-pgsql php-gd

Install all prerequisite packages using the following command:

yum install babel python-devel libxslt-python pyparsing python-dateutil python-decorator python-imaging python-jinja2 python-ldap python-lxml python-mako python-psycopg2 python-reportlab python-requests python-werkzeug python-yaml python-docutils  python-matplotlib python-unittest2.noarch python-babel python-gevent pygtk2 glade3 pytz libxslt-devel bzr automake gcc gcc-c++ byacc kernel-headers

Restart the Apache web server:

systemctl restart httpd.service

Initialize the PostgreSQL database cluster:

postgresql-setup initdb

Configure the PostgreSQL service to start automatically on server boot:

systemctl enable postgresql.service

Start PostgreSQL service and set a password for the ‘postgres’ user:

systemctl start postgresql.service
su - postgres
psql
\password postgres
(Enter new password twice)
\q
exit

Create new system user named ‘odoo’:

adduser odoo
passwd odoo

Create ‘odoo’ user in PostgreSQL using the following command:

su - postgres -c "createuser --pwprompt --createdb --no-createrole --no-superuser odoo"
(Enter new 'odoo' user password twice)

Download the latest version of Odoo and extract it to the ‘/opt’ directory on your virtual server:

cd /opt 
wget http://nightly.odoo.com/8.0/nightly/src/odoo_8.0.latest.tar.gz
tar -xvzf /root/odoo_8.0.latest.tar.gz
mv odoo-8.* odoo
cd odoo

Install Odoo 8:

python setup.py install
cp openerp-server /usr/local/bin/odoo-server
mkdir -p /var/log/odoo/
touch /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log
chown odoo /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log
chmod 644 /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log

Give the ‘odoo’ user permission to install new modules:

chown odoo -R /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/odoo-8*/openerp/addons/

Run the following commands:

vi ~odoo/.bashrc
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
source ~odoo/.bashrc

Edit the ‘/etc/odoo-server.conf’ configuration file and add the following lines:

[options]
; This is the password that allows database operations:
; admin_passwd = admin
db_host = localhost
db_port = 5432
db_user = odoo
db_password = False
addons_path = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/odoo-8.0_20150306-py2.7.egg/openerp/addons/
#do not forget to change 'odoo-8.0_20150306-py2.7.egg' with the actual directory on your server
logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log
log_level = error

Edit the ‘/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf’ configuration file and allow local access to PostgreSQL databases:

vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf

# TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     trust # changed from 'peer'
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust # changed from 'ident'
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all             all             ::1/128                 trust # changed from 'ident'

Optionally, if you want to allow remote access to PostgreSQL databases, add the following line to ‘/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf’ configuration file:

host    all             all             0.0.0.0/0               md5

Check the PostgreSQL server encoding:

su - postgres
psql
postgres=# \l
                             List of databases
   Name    |  Owner   | Encoding  | Collate | Ctype |   Access privileges
-----------+----------+-----------+---------+-------+-----------------------
 postgres  | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C       | C     |
 template0 | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C       | C     | =c/postgres          +
           |          |           |         |       | postgres=CTc/postgres
 template1 | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C       | C     | =c/postgres          +
           |          |           |         |       | postgres=CTc/postgres

To change the template1 encoding to UTF8, run the following commands:

update pg_database set datallowconn = TRUE where datname = 'template0';
\c template0
update pg_database set datistemplate = FALSE where datname = 'template1';
drop database template1;
create database template1 with template = template0 encoding = 'UTF8';
update pg_database set datistemplate = TRUE where datname = 'template1';
\c template1
update pg_database set datallowconn = FALSE where datname = 'template0';
\q

Restart the PostgreSQL server:

systemctl restart postgresql.service

To start Odoo automatically when the server is booted, add a systemd unit file with the following content:

vi /usr/lib/systemd/system/odoo.service

[Unit]
Description=Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server
Requires=postgresql.service
After=postgresql.service
[Install]
Alias=odoo.service
[Service]
Type=simple
PermissionsStartOnly=true
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/conf.d/odoo-server
User=odoo
Group=odoo
SyslogIdentifier=odoo-server
PIDFile=/run/odoo/odoo-server.pid
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d -m755 -o odoo -g odoo /run/odoo
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/odoo-server -c /etc/odoo-server.conf --pid=/run/odoo/odoo-server.pid --syslog $OPENERP_ARGS
ExecStop=/bin/kill $MAINPID
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The last thing left to do is enabling and starting up the service:

systemctl enable odoo.service

Start Odoo:

systemctl start odoo.service

Open http://your-server-IP:8069/web/database/manager and create a new database.

Then, you should be able to log in to the administrator back-end at http://server_IP:8069 using ‘admin’ as username and your newly created password. To reset your ‘admin’ password, navigate to:

Administrator -> Preferences -> Change password

That is it. Odoo 8 has been successfully installed on your CentOS 7 VPS.

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65 thoughts on “Install Odoo 8 on a CentOS 7 VPS”

Darryl

October 8, 2014 at 11:12 pm

This was a great guide for installing Odoo version 8 on Centos7. Came across this and followed it verbatim except used Webmin to create DB user and where I downloaded my files.

You covered install, file permissions, config file settings, user creation and behavior for running Odoo, PostgreSQL settings and topped it off nicely with systemd config.

The official RPM at this time isn’t working well. I tried a few different ways to remedy the issues with the RPM of Odoo 8 and really ended up with hours down the drain fixing the various pieces. Then came across this site got everything beyond where I had before but still not where I wanted since I had made so many changes. I then decided to ditch the VM with configs and files all over building another with Centos 7 guest system and this process worked very nicely as I said above.

Now I can evaluate Odoo version 8 and so far it looks sweet. Not sure how they do the official documents for Odoo\OpenERP but this version should be right there.

Thanks!
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- admin
  
  October 8, 2014 at 11:16 pm
  
  Thanks. We’re glad you found the article helpful!
  Reply
  - Balde
    
    January 30, 2015 at 10:48 am
    
    hello,
    I have this error:
    
    openerp.service – Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openerp.service; enabled)
    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2015-01-30 16:44:16 CET; 21s ago
    Process: 30894 ExecStop=/bin/kill $MAINPID (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    Process: 30887 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/openerp-server -c /etc/openerp-server.conf –pid=/run/openerp/openerp-serv er.pid –syslog $OPENERP_ARGS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    Process: 30885 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d -m755 -o openerp -g openerp /run/openerp (code=exited, status=0/SU CCESS)
    Main PID: 30887 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    
    Thank you so much for any help..
    Reply
    - admin
      
      January 30, 2015 at 11:35 am
      
      Please re-check your configuration files and make sure that they are correct and consistent.
      Reply
      - Balde
        
        February 2, 2015 at 3:46 am
        
        Here are the contents of my openerp.service file:
        
        [Unit]
        Description=Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server
        Requires=postgresql.service
        After=postgresql.service
        [Install]
        Alias=openerp.service
        [Service]
        Type=simple
        PermissionsStartOnly=true
        EnvironmentFile=-/etc/conf.d/openerp-server
        User=openerp
        Group=openerp
        SyslogIdentifier=openerp-server
        PIDFile=/run/openerp/openerp-server.pid
        ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d -m755 -o openerp -g openerp /run/openerp
        ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/openerp-server -c /etc/openerp-server.conf –pid=/run/openerp/openerp-server.pid –syslog $OPENERP_ARGS
        ExecStop=/bin/kill $MAINPID
        [Install]
        WantedBy=multi-user.target
        
        I have also maridb installed on my server, it can be the cause?
      - Balde
        
        February 2, 2015 at 6:02 am
        
        Here are more details:
        
        [root@s17747531 build]# service openerp status
        Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status openerp.service
        openerp.service – Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server
        Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openerp.service; enabled)
        Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2015-02-02 11:53:21 CET; 1h 7min ago
        Process: 24796 ExecStop=/bin/kill $MAINPID (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        Process: 24788 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/openerp-server -c /etc/openerp-server.conf –pid=/run/openerp/openerp-server.pid –syslog $OPENERP_ARGS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        Process: 24786 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d -m755 -o openerp -g openerp /run/openerp (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        Main PID: 24788 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        
        Feb 02 11:53:21 s17747531 openerp-server[24796]: -s, –signal send specified signal
        Feb 02 11:53:21 s17747531 openerp-server[24796]: -q, –queue use sigqueue(2) rather than kill(2)
        Feb 02 11:53:21 s17747531 openerp-server[24796]: -p, –pid print pids without signaling them
        Feb 02 11:53:21 s17747531 openerp-server[24796]: -l, –list [=] list signal names, or convert one to a name
        Feb 02 11:53:21 s17747531 openerp-server[24796]: -L, –table list signal names and numbers
        Feb 02 11:53:21 s17747531 openerp-server[24796]: -h, –help display this help and exit
        Feb 02 11:53:21 s17747531 openerp-server[24796]: -V, –version output version information and exit
        Feb 02 11:53:21 s17747531 openerp-server[24796]: For more details see kill(1).
        Feb 02 11:53:21 s17747531 systemd[1]: openerp.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
        Feb 02 11:53:21 s17747531 systemd[1]: Unit openerp.service entered failed state.
Cornelio

October 15, 2014 at 11:55 pm

I have this error. Can you help me please me?

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application.
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- admin
  
  October 16, 2014 at 5:11 am
  
  Check if there is anything in your logfiles.
  Reply
- cornelio
  
  October 16, 2014 at 2:07 pm
  
  there is not anything in log
  Reply
  - admin
    
    October 16, 2014 at 2:37 pm
    
    Please check the errors given in your web server’s log file.
    Reply
yvonne

October 21, 2014 at 9:08 am

i am getting error 500 , the log is as follows
2014-10-21 14:00:39,292 18177 INFO ? openerp: OpenERP version 8.0-8813815
2014-10-21 14:00:39,292 18177 INFO ? openerp: addons paths: [‘/home/yvonne/.local/share/Odoo/addons/8.0′, u’/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openerp-8.0_8813815-py2.7.egg/openerp/addons’, u’/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openerp-8.0_8813815-py2.7.egg/addons’]
2014-10-21 14:00:39,293 18177 INFO ? openerp: database hostname: localhost
2014-10-21 14:00:39,293 18177 INFO ? openerp: database port: 5432
2014-10-21 14:00:39,293 18177 INFO ? openerp: database user: yvonne
2014-10-21 14:00:39,464 18177 INFO ? openerp.service.server: HTTP service (werkzeug) running on 0.0.0.0:8069
2014-10-21 14:02:51,092 18177 INFO ? openerp.addons.bus.bus: Bus.loop listen imbus on db postgres
2014-10-21 14:02:52,873 18177 INFO ? openerp.addons.report.models.report: You need Wkhtmltopdf to print a pdf version of the reports.
2014-10-21 14:02:53,601 18177 INFO ? werkzeug: 127.0.0.1 – – [21/Oct/2014 14:02:53] “GET / HTTP/1.1” 500 –
2014-10-21 14:02:53,605 18177 ERROR ? werkzeug: Error on request:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/werkzeug/serving.py”, line 159, in run_wsgi
execute(app)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/werkzeug/serving.py”, line 146, in execute
application_iter = app(environ, start_response)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openerp-8.0_8813815-py2.7.egg/openerp/service/server.py”, line 280, in app
return self.app(e, s)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openerp-8.0_8813815-py2.7.egg/openerp/service/wsgi_server.py”, line 216, in application
return application_unproxied(environ, start_response)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openerp-8.0_8813815-py2.7.egg/openerp/service/wsgi_server.py”, line 202, in application_unproxied
result = handler(environ, start_response)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openerp-8.0_8813815-py2.7.egg/openerp/http.py”, line 1214, in __call__
self.load_addons()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openerp-8.0_8813815-py2.7.egg/openerp/http.py”, line 1224, in load_addons
for module in sorted(os.listdir(str(addons_path))):
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openerp-8.0_8813815-py2.7.egg/addons’

is there somewhere i initalize the addon_path
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- admin
  
  October 21, 2014 at 9:19 am
  1. Run the following command:
```
chown openerp -R /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openerp-8*/openerp/addons/
```
  2. Edit the ‘/etc/openerp-server.conf’ configuration file and add/modify the following line:
```
addons_path = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openerp-8.0_8813815-py2.7.egg/openerp/addons/
```
  3. Restart Odoo:
```
systemctl restart openerp.service
```
  Reply
Ahmad Redzwan

October 22, 2014 at 5:03 am

Great Guide, Thanks a lot. Now I just wondering how to redirect to port 80 instead of 8069…
I tried http://pulse7.net/openerp/run-odoo-port-80-instead-8069/ but failed..

Thank you so much for any help..
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- admin
  
  October 22, 2014 at 7:57 am
  
  You need to edit the Apache configuration and set a reverse proxy. For example:
  
  ProxyPass / http://example.com:8069/ ProxyPassReverse / http://example.com:8069/
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CArlos

October 25, 2014 at 1:24 pm

Great Job!!!
The truth is that some of his research to properly install version 8 has helped me to install it on a FEDORA system which although very similar to CentOS is not equal

Thanks for your efforts and work

P. D. sorry for my English
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- admin
  
  October 25, 2014 at 2:30 pm
  
  You are welcome. We are pleased that you found our tutorial useful.
  Reply
Benneric

October 29, 2014 at 10:19 am

Thanks for the guide,but i got a problem,here is the log:

[root@localhost openerp]# systemctl status openerp.service
openerp.service – Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openerp.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since å… 2014-10-25 04:30:10 CST; 4min 45s ago
Process: 31736 ExecStop=/bin/kill $MAINPID (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 31728 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/openerp-server -c /etc/openerp-server.conf usr/bin/odoo-server –config=/etc/odoo-server.conf –syslog $OPENERP_ARGS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 31726 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d -m755 -o openerp -g openerp /run/openerp (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 31728 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

10æœˆ 25 04:30:10 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[31736]: -s, –signal
10æœˆ 25 04:30:10 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[31736]: -q, –queue
10æœˆ 25 04:30:10 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[31736]: -p, –pid
10æœˆ 25 04:30:10 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[31736]: -l, –list
10æœˆ 25 04:30:10 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[31736]: -L, –table
10æœˆ 25 04:30:10 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[31736]: -h, –help
10æœˆ 25 04:30:10 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[31736]: -V, –version
10æœˆ 25 04:30:10 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[31736]:
10æœˆ 25 04:30:10 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: openerp.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
10æœˆ 25 04:30:10 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit openerp.service entered failed state.
[root@localhost openerp]#
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- Balde
  
  January 30, 2015 at 10:11 am
  
  hello,
  i got the same problem.
  Thank you so much for any help..
  Reply
Pascal Chong

November 1, 2014 at 7:38 am

I’m having trouble with the python setup stage. When I execute “python setup.py install”, it runs for a while then aborts with an error:

File “/tmp/easy_install-2M3HZo/unittest2-0.7.1/unittest2/__init__.py”, line 40, in
File “/tmp/easy_install-2M3HZo/unittest2-0.7.1/unittest2/collector.py”, line 3, in
File “/tmp/easy_install-2M3HZo/unittest2-0.7.1/unittest2/loader.py”, line 13, in
File “/tmp/easy_install-2M3HZo/unittest2-0.7.1/unittest2/case.py”, line 16, in
ImportError: cannot import name range

I think I am missing some python library, but I don’t know what. Help!!

Thanks in advance!
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- admin
  
  November 1, 2014 at 9:05 am
  
  Execute the following command:
  yum install babel python-devel libxslt-python pyparsing python-dateutil python-decorator python-imaging python-jinja2 python-ldap python-lxml python-mako python-psycopg2 python-reportlab python-requests python-werkzeug python-yaml python-docutils python-matplotlib python-babel python-gevent pygtk2 glade3 pytz libxslt-devel bzr automake gcc gcc-c++ byacc
  Reply
Guido

November 5, 2014 at 8:35 pm

Hello,

I have the same problem, I made your suggestion but the problem continues, can you help me please?…

Thank you…

Regards,

Guido

File “/tmp/easy_install-BBjszy/unittest2-0.8.0/unittest2/__init__.py”, line 40, in
File “/tmp/easy_install-BBjszy/unittest2-0.8.0/unittest2/collector.py”, line 3, in
File “/tmp/easy_install-BBjszy/unittest2-0.8.0/unittest2/loader.py”, line 13, in
File “/tmp/easy_install-BBjszy/unittest2-0.8.0/unittest2/case.py”, line 16, in
ImportError: cannot import name range
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- admin
  
  November 5, 2014 at 8:55 pm
  
  Most likely you are missing the unittest library.
  
  yum install python-unittest2.noarch
  Reply
  - Minh Nguyen
    
    November 10, 2014 at 10:11 am
    
    Hi Guido
    you should be install https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six
    Reply
    - Guido
      
      November 14, 2014 at 7:10 am
      
      Thank you, it works, the installation was successfull, but when I tried to enter in http://ipaddress:8069, this not show nothing, I verified with the apache server, it’s up and running, http://ipddress…
      
      Thank you for your help….
      
      Have a good day…
      Reply
      - admin
        
        November 14, 2014 at 10:29 am
        
        Did you check your log files?
Guido

November 14, 2014 at 9:37 am

Hi everybody,

I make the install everything is OK, when I put in my browser http://ipaddrress:8069/web(database/manager, show me only odoo, Edit Company data , Powered by Odoo

Can you help me??

Have a good day…

Thank you…

Regards,

Guido
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- Guido
  
  November 14, 2014 at 3:35 pm
  
  [root@srvodoo log]# systemctl status openerp.service
  openerp.service – Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server
  Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openerp.service; enabled)
  Active: active (running) since vie 2014-11-14 16:02:21 ECT; 14min ago
  Process: 2929 ExecStop=/bin/kill $MAINPID (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2932 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d -m755 -o openerp -g openerp /run/openerp (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Main PID: 2933 (python)
  CGroup: /system.slice/openerp.service
  └─2933 python /usr/local/bin/openerp-server -c /etc/openerp-server.conf –pid=/run/openerp/opener…
  
  nov 14 16:02:21 srvodoo systemd[1]: Starting Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server…
  nov 14 16:02:21 srvodoo systemd[1]: Started Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server.
  [root@srvodoo log]#
  Reply
  - admin
    
    November 14, 2014 at 3:39 pm
    
    Please run the following commands and provide us with the output:
    cat /etc/openerp-server.conf
    cat /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
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Mark

November 16, 2014 at 6:12 am

Thanks for the great step through!

I am getting an error at when starting the service in the last step.

I got to the end of the install process for openerp and got this:

[root@vps1 ~]# systemctl start openerp.service
Job for openerp.service failed. See ‘systemctl status openerp.service’ and ‘journalctl -xn’ for details.
[root@vps1 ~]# systemctl status openerp.service
openerp.service – Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openerp.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2014-11-16 05:58:54 EST; 8s ago
Process: 5211 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d -m755 -o openerp -g openerp /run/openerp (code=exited, status=217/USER)

Nov 16 05:58:54 vps1.bilbycare.com.au systemd[5211]: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/bin/install: No such process
Nov 16 05:58:54 vps1.bilbycare.com.au systemd[1]: openerp.service: control process exited, code=exited status=217
Nov 16 05:58:54 vps1.bilbycare.com.au systemd[1]: Failed to start Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server.
Nov 16 05:58:54 vps1.bilbycare.com.au systemd[1]: Unit openerp.service entered failed state.

and

Nov 16 05:58:54 vps1.bilbycare.com.au systemd[1]: Starting Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server…
— Subject: Unit openerp.service has begun with start-up
— Defined-By: systemd
— Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
—
— Unit openerp.service has begun starting up.
Nov 16 05:58:54 vps1.bilbycare.com.au systemd[5211]: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/bin/install: No such process
— Subject: Process /usr/bin/install could not be executed
— Defined-By: systemd
— Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
—
— The process /usr/bin/install could not be executed and failed.
—
— The error number returned while executing this process is 3.
Nov 16 05:58:54 vps1.bilbycare.com.au systemd[1]: openerp.service: control process exited, code=exited status=217
Nov 16 05:58:54 vps1.bilbycare.com.au systemd[1]: Failed to start Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server.
— Subject: Unit openerp.service has failed
— Defined-By: systemd
lines 1-43

What do you think?
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- admin
  
  November 16, 2014 at 2:37 pm
  the following line indicates that something went wrong on your side:
```
Nov 16 05:58:54 vps1.bilbycare.com.au systemd[5211]: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/bin/install: No such process
```
  you may want to re-check if your configuration files are correct and consistent.
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Goldman

November 18, 2014 at 3:14 am

Your installation script is very good. Everything okay, except, during installed the command “Installed /usr/lib/pytho”, it came up the following error and could not install the pydot.html. Could you advise how to solve it ?
>>>>>>
Reading http://dkbza.org/pydot.html
Download error on http://dkbza.org/pydot.html: [Errno 110] Connection timed out — Some packages may not be found!
Best match: pydot 1.0.28
Downloading http://pydot.googlecode.com/files/pydot-1.0.28.zip
error: Download error for http://pydot.googlecode.com/files/pydot-1.0.28.zip: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable
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- admin
  
  November 18, 2014 at 4:47 am
  
  Most likely, it was network issue. You can try to rerun the install command.
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  - Goldman
    
    November 19, 2014 at 4:08 am
    
    Yes, I cannot download http://pydot.googlecode.com/files/pydot-1.0.28.zip from China network. I will try another network connection.
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Pierre Rodrigues

November 25, 2014 at 9:18 pm

I followed this great tuto (almost… some yum python installs are not mentioned).

But the DB manager does not work. It shows only Odoo logo and tons of 404 errors on JS, CSS files. I suppose a path needs to be changed. But where?

root@server6.xxxx.com:~# cat /etc/openerp-server.conf
[options]
; This is the password that allows database operations:
; admin_passwd = admin
db_host = localhost
db_port = 5432
db_user = openerp
db_password = False
addons_path = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openerp-8.0_784665e-py2.7.egg/openerp/addons/
logfile = /var/log/openerp/openerp-server.log
log_level = error
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- admin
  
  November 25, 2014 at 11:46 pm
  
  Did you check your /var/log/openerp/openerp-server.log file for errors?
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Sam

December 15, 2014 at 9:26 am

Thanks for this Article the reviews are very positive but i seem to be stuck at a point. I’m running a centos 6.6 and i’m stuck at the command – systemctl restart httpd.service -(For restarting the Apache web server). I copied and pasted it into my terminal when executed this is the feedback-( bash: systemctl: command not found). I tried skipping it and moving on to the next step, initializing the postgresql database cluster and i get the feedback -bash: postgresql-setup: command not found –
its obvious i’m doing something wrong. I’m relatively new to linux os so i am a bit wet around the ears. Any assistance so i can get beyond this point would be appreciated thanks
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- admin
  
  December 15, 2014 at 5:55 pm
  
  You cannot use the command ‘systemctl restart httpd.service’ on a CentOS 6. Please use the command ‘service httpd restart’ if you like to restart your Apache web server. Also, please note that this guide is written for CentOS 7, so it may not work properly on your CentOS 6.
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ray

January 21, 2015 at 8:22 pm

Hi,
the openerp service shown as per below messg. need assistant to troubleshoot. thanks

[root@localhost openerp]# systemctl status openerp.service
openerp.service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openerp.service)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2015-01-21 21:16:18 EST; 4min 2s ago
Process: 19894 ExecStop=/bin/kill $MAINPID (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 19883 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/openerp-server -c /etc/openerp-server.conf –pid=/run/openerp/openerp-server.pid –syslog $OPENERP_ARGS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 19881 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d -m755 -o openerp -g openerp /run/openerp (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 19883 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jan 21 21:16:18 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[19894]: -s, –signal send…
Jan 21 21:16:18 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[19894]: -q, –queue use …
Jan 21 21:16:18 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[19894]: -p, –pid prin…
Jan 21 21:16:18 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[19894]: -l, –list [=] list…
Jan 21 21:16:18 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[19894]: -L, –table list…
Jan 21 21:16:18 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[19894]: -h, –help display this…
Jan 21 21:16:18 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[19894]: -V, –version output versi…
Jan 21 21:16:18 localhost.localdomain openerp-server[19894]: For more details see kill(1).
Jan 21 21:16:18 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: openerp.service: control process exi…=1
Jan 21 21:16:18 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit openerp.service entered failed …e.
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Omar

January 28, 2015 at 10:14 am

I correctly set the log file in openerp config file but i got nothing in the log file.
I dont know why.
this is the line that i put in config file :
logfile = /var/log/openerp/openerp-server.log
log_level = info
I also execute this commandes line:
bash#mkdir -p /var/log/openerp/
bash#touch /var/log/openerp/openerp-server.log
bash#chown openerp /var/log/openerp/openerp-server.log
bash#chmod 644 /var/log/openerp/openerp-server.log
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Ilkka Seittenranta

February 16, 2015 at 1:25 pm

Missing wget packages from “Install all prerequisite packages…”.

It helps a lot install setuptools and pip before odoo:

cd
wget –no-check-certificate https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-1.4.2.tar.gz
tar xzf setuptools-1.4.2.tar.gz
cd setuptools-1.4.2
python setup.py install
cd

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | python2.7 –

Now you can install all packets what are listed in odoo/requirements.txt:
pip install Babel
pip install Jinja2
pip install Mako
pip install MarkupSafe
pip install Pillow
pip install PyYAML
pip install Werkzeug
pip install argparse
pip install decorator
pip install docutils
pip install feedparser
pip install gdata
pip install gevent
pip install greenlet
pip install jcconv
pip install lxml
pip install mock
pip install passlib
pip install psutil
pip install psycogreen
pip install psycopg2
pip install pyPdf
pip install pydot
pip install pyparsing
pip install pyserial
pip install python-dateutil
pip install python-ldap
pip install python-openid
pip install pytz
pip install pyusb
pip install qrcode
pip install reportlab
pip install requests
pip install simplejson
pip install six
pip install unittest2
pip install vatnumber
pip install vobject
pip install wsgiref
pip install xlwt

One packet need to install by hand:
cd
wget http://download.gna.org/pychart/PyChart-1.39.tar.gz
tar xzf PyChart-1.39.tar.gz
cd PyChart-1.39
python setup.py install

The continue “Install Odoo 8:”
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- admin
  
  February 16, 2015 at 2:38 pm
  
  If you follow the instructions closely and install all prerequisite packages, there is no need to install setuptools and pip.
  
  We tested the tutorial and it works as expected.
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Sohaib

February 19, 2015 at 3:10 am

Hello
great tut i have gone trough step by step but now i am stuck
I am getting following error
please help

openerp.service – Advanced ERP and CRM server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openerp.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2015-02-19 03:57:32 EST; 7min ago
Process: 1036 ExecStop=/bin/kill $MAINPID (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 1029 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/openerp-server -c /etc/openerp-server.conf –pid=/run/openerp/openerp-server.pid –syslog $OPENERP_ARGS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 1026 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d -m755 -o openerp -g openerp /run/openerp (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1029 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Feb 19 03:57:32 sohaib openerp-server[1036]: -s, –signal send spe…l
Feb 19 03:57:32 sohaib openerp-server[1036]: -q, –queue use sigq…)
Feb 19 03:57:32 sohaib openerp-server[1036]: -p, –pid print pi…m
Feb 19 03:57:32 sohaib openerp-server[1036]: -l, –list [=] list sig…e
Feb 19 03:57:32 sohaib openerp-server[1036]: -L, –table list sig…s
Feb 19 03:57:32 sohaib openerp-server[1036]: -h, –help display this hel…t
Feb 19 03:57:32 sohaib openerp-server[1036]: -V, –version output version i…t
Feb 19 03:57:32 sohaib openerp-server[1036]: For more details see kill(1).
Feb 19 03:57:32 sohaib systemd[1]: openerp.service: control process exited,…=1
Feb 19 03:57:32 sohaib systemd[1]: Unit openerp.service entered failed state.
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- admin
  
  February 19, 2015 at 3:33 am
  
  Please check if there is some missing dependency or syntax error.
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Simon Greer

March 12, 2015 at 2:57 pm

Hi there. The instructions say:

Run the following commands:
vi ~odoo/.bashrc
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
source ~odoo/.bashrc

This just opens VI. Does it want me to insert the second line somewhere in the text document and then save it?
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- admin
  
  March 12, 2015 at 3:00 pm
  
  Yes, that is correct.
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Lars

April 5, 2015 at 1:46 pm

It seems Ilkka Seittenranta is right. Odoo install fails if his steps are not done on Centos minimal install. Then you end up with the same error as everyone are writing about in here. After his step, you can install Odoo, and you will end up with

“Finished processing dependencies for odoo==8.0-20150405”

Now I am left struggling with the error that Cornelio is facing. And there is no logs indicating any error. odoo-server.log i 0 bytes.

Have no idea on how to continue. Why not install from the RPM on odoo site?

Regards, Lars.
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yahia agwa

April 6, 2015 at 10:48 am

hello
i did all the steps on new fresh vps

but after i finished and try to open the ip:port
not work

this is the result for the status

systemctl status odoo.service
odoo.service – Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/odoo.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2015-04-06 11:43:15 EDT; 46s ago
Process: 10839 ExecStop=/bin/kill $MAINPID (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 10836 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/odoo-server -c /etc/odoo-server.conf –pid=/run/odoo/odoo-server.pid –syslog $OPENERP_ARGS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 10835 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d -m755 -o odoo -g odoo /run/odoo (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 10836 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 06 11:43:15 pm odoo-server[10839]: -s, –signal send specified signal
Apr 06 11:43:15 pm odoo-server[10839]: -q, –queue use sigqueue(2) rather than kill(2)
Apr 06 11:43:15 pm odoo-server[10839]: -p, –pid print pids without signaling them
Apr 06 11:43:15 pm odoo-server[10839]: -l, –list [=] list signal names, or convert one to a name
Apr 06 11:43:15 pm odoo-server[10839]: -L, –table list signal names and numbers
Apr 06 11:43:15 pm odoo-server[10839]: -h, –help display this help and exit
Apr 06 11:43:15 pm odoo-server[10839]: -V, –version output version information and exit
Apr 06 11:43:15 pm odoo-server[10839]: For more details see kill(1).
Apr 06 11:43:15 pm systemd[1]: odoo.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Apr 06 11:43:15 pm systemd[1]: Unit odoo.service entered failed state.
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jamesjoe

July 9, 2015 at 5:14 am

Thank you, I have successfully installed, but the log is empty, openerp-server.log is 0 bytes, I’ve set log_level = info, in odoo operation, the log file is always empty, ask admin for help?
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- admin
  
  July 9, 2015 at 11:04 pm
  
  You may change log-level to ‘debug’ if needed.
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Ailemen Stephen

July 17, 2015 at 12:13 pm

i have same issue. it will be nice if the server specification can be stated. Judging from everyone experience
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eugenio

August 6, 2015 at 4:27 am

You can put this instrucción for make easy your tutorial

firewall-cmd –zone=public –add-port=8069/tcp –permanent
firewall-cmd –reload

thanks
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Devguy

August 19, 2015 at 5:39 am

New error during new install, I didn’t have this one before:

After this line: python setup.py install

….error: Installed distribution six 1.3.0 conflicts with requirement six>=1.4

What can I do?
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- admin
  
  August 20, 2015 at 6:56 am
  
  Please run the following commands:
  yum clean all
  yum update
  yum install postgresql-libs postgresql-server postgresql php-pgsql php-gd babel python-devel libxslt-python pyparsing python-dateutil python-decorator python-imaging python-jinja2 python-ldap python-lxml python-mako python-psycopg2 python-reportlab python-requests python-werkzeug python-yaml python-docutils python-matplotlib python-unittest2.noarch python-babel python-gevent pygtk2 glade3 pytz libxslt-devel bzr automake gcc gcc-c++ byacc kernel-headers
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  - Mat
    
    August 25, 2015 at 3:04 am
    
    Hello, I’ve the same error “Installed distribution six 1.3.0 conflicts with requirement six>=1.4”.
    Done the commands above (yum clean all, yum update, …), but the problem occur again.
    Please how can I solve it? Thanks
    Reply
    - admin
      
      August 25, 2015 at 9:39 pm
      
      Could you please provide us with the complete error message that you encountered?
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      - markos
        
        August 28, 2015 at 6:29 am
        
        Problem is: Installed /tmp/easy_install-sRGEyY/unittest2-1.1.0/traceback2-1.4.0-py2.7.egg
        error: Installed distribution six 1.3.0 conflicts with requirement six>=1.4
        
        I found that there is no package python-six-1.4 for centos 7. Latest is python-six-1.3.0-4.el7.noarch for python 2.7
        
        The requirement for six>=1.4 is from unittest2 since version 1.0.1.
        
        So I put unittest2 < 1.0.1 on setup.py and then I had the ImportError: cannot import name range
      - admin
        
        August 30, 2015 at 12:41 am
        
        Please follow the instructions closely and you should not have problems installing Odoo 8 on a CentOS 7 server.
- Ruben
  
  October 10, 2015 at 11:00 am
  
  I had similar problem on CENTOS 7 to solve I upgraded several python module, here’s what I did to complete setup.py without error
  
  yum install epel-release
  yum install -y python-pip
  pip install —-upgrade six
  pip install –upgrade setuptools
  pip install –upgrade pytz
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  - steve lou
    
    November 3, 2015 at 3:49 am
    
    I upgraded about 3-4 python modules according the error.
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Lucio

November 16, 2015 at 5:24 pm

Can you help me to solve this problem?

[root@localhost odoo]# systemctl status odoo.service
odoo.service – Advanced OpenSource ERP and CRM server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/odoo.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since mar 2015-11-17 00:23:10 CET; 6s ago
Process: 5441 ExecStop=/bin/kill $MAINPID (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 5438 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/odoo-server -c /etc/odoo-server.conf –pid=/run/odoo/odoo-server.pid –syslog $OPENERP_ARGS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 5437 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d -m755 -o odoo -g odoo /run/odoo (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 5438 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

nov 17 00:23:10 localhost.localdomain odoo-server[5441]: -s, –signal send specifie…l
nov 17 00:23:10 localhost.localdomain odoo-server[5441]: -q, –queue use sigqueue(…)
nov 17 00:23:10 localhost.localdomain odoo-server[5441]: -p, –pid print pids wi…m
nov 17 00:23:10 localhost.localdomain odoo-server[5441]: -l, –list [=] list signal n…e
nov 17 00:23:10 localhost.localdomain odoo-server[5441]: -L, –table list signal n…s
nov 17 00:23:10 localhost.localdomain odoo-server[5441]: -h, –help display this help and…t
nov 17 00:23:10 localhost.localdomain odoo-server[5441]: -V, –version output version inform…t
nov 17 00:23:10 localhost.localdomain odoo-server[5441]: For more details see kill(1).
nov 17 00:23:10 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: odoo.service: control process exited, code…=1
nov 17 00:23:10 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit odoo.service entered failed state.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
[root@localhost odoo]#
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- admin
  
  November 16, 2015 at 5:28 pm
  
  Did you check your Odoo log file?
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Arafat

September 13, 2017 at 11:39 am

Do you have tutorial for odoo 10? I’m stuck at copying the conf file. where is the conf file location in odoo 10? because the structure is different.
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- admin
  
  September 14, 2017 at 12:31 am
  
  Yes, we have tutorial for Odoo 10 too. You can find it at: https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/install-odoo-10-on-centos-7-with-apache-as-a-reverse-proxy/
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ali

January 16, 2018 at 5:07 pm

Hi
good document and very useful
I have a problem after installation that only odoo logo shows in the browser..
can you help me with that ?
by the way I don’t know how to show the logs
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- admin
  
  January 17, 2018 at 12:39 pm
  
  The location of the log file should be /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log. You can use tail, cat or even nano to see the log entries. It may show you what causes the actual problem.
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