HPR4449: How to install Odoo 18 on a virtual machine

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Create a vm with Debian 12 and at least 4 Gb of RAM and say 20-30 Gb disc space. installation ============ sudo apt install -y gpg postgresql wget -q -O - https://nightly.odoo.com/odoo.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/odoo-archive-keyring.gpg echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/odoo-archive-keyring.gpg] https://nightly.odoo.com/18.0/nightly/deb/ ./' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/odoo.list Odoo CE latest nightly build https://nightly.odoo.com/18.0/nightly/deb/odoo_18.0.latest_all.deb sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y odoo Install wkhtmltopdf wget -O wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-3.bookworm_amd64.deb https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6.1-3/wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-3.bookworm_amd64.deb dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-3.bookworm_amd64.deb apt install -f -y apt install -y python3-xlwt python3-num2words python3-phonenumbers systemctl status odoo First use ========= http://:8069/ Will relocate to /web/database/selector Master Password to protect this form Database Name. Email: your email Password: your desired password Phone Number: optional Language: your desired language Country: select your country Demo Data: select to get demo data. Click "Create database" Wait. Login. You see /odoo/apps. Upper left square-icon shows 'Apps' and 'Settings'. Let's install a simple app: contacts Search in the search bar for "contacts" and when displayed, click the 'Activate' button of the "contacts" app. When done, the same menu now contains: Discuss, To-do, contacts, Project, Email Marketing, Surveys, Employees and the earlier mentioned Apps and Settings. Go back to 'Apps' and Activate the "Sales" app. This will also install the "Invoicing" app. Time to start playing around. Some tech stuff, interesting locations =============== /etc/odoo/odoo.conf Here you can add additional addons later: /var/lib/odoo/.local/share/Odoo/addons/18.0/ Here are all files uploaded to Odoo: find /var/lib/odoo/.local/share/Odoo/filestore/ This is where user sessions are administrated: find /var/lib/odoo/.local/share/Odoo/sessions/ And these are the main locations where the Odoo program can be found. ls -al /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/ ls -al /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/addons/ ls -al /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/addons/ | wc