OpenERP 6.1 development environment in Ubuntu using Eclipse.

In this blog we will go through some steps required in setting up OpenERP for customization under eclipse in Ubuntu.In my previous blog i have gone through setting up OpenERP for windows.

Version Used:

OpenERP : 6.1
Postgresql : 9.1
Eclispe : latest in ubuntu repository

Run the following commands from the terminal.

1) Installs eclipse and its dependencies.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install eclipse

2)Installs python and its libraries packages required for openerp-server
  sudo apt-get install python python-psycopg2 python-reportlab python-pychart python-pydot

                 python-egenix-mxdatetime python-lxml python-libxslt1 python-tz python-dateutil python-vobject

                 python-mako python-yaml python-dev python-setuptools python-pybabel

3)OpenerpERP server uses postgresql database server for its working so,
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pitti/postgresql
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.1 postgresql-client-9.1 postgresql-contrib-9.1

4)Create a database user for OpenERP in postgresql server, who can create databases and manipulate them.
sudo su postgres
createuser <system-user-name> (enter “y” when prompted for super user role)
exit

5)Openerp-server 6.1 requires Werkzeug and Python-openid packages to be installed.
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/W/Werkzeug/
Werkzeug-0.8.3.tar.gz#md5=12aa03e302ce49da98703938f257347a (copy the full link)
tar -zxvf Werkzeug-0.8.3.tar.gz
cd Werkzeug-0.8.3
python setup.py install
cd ..

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-openid/
python-openid-2.2.5.tar.gz#md5=393f48b162ec29c3de9e2973548ea50d (copy the full link)
tar -zxvf python-openid/python-openid-2.2.5.tar.gz
cd python-openid-2.2.5
python setup.py install
cd ..

6) Install PyDev plugin in eclipse
a)help -> Install New Software.
b)In Install dialog box, Click Add.
c)Give name ‘pydev’ and type the path. i.e.
d)click ok.
e)select pydev checkbox and follow the steps by clicking finish

7)Adding python in eclipse can be done by
a)window -> Preferences
b)In Preferences dialog box expand pydev from left side tree
c)click on Interpreter-Python
d)click new (python interpreter)
e)browse and select “File System–>usr–>bin–>python” and also give name “python2.6”
f) click ok then again ok

8)Download Openerp 6.1 source tarball from,
http://nightly.openerp.com/6.1/releases/openerp-6.1-1.tar.gz

9)Extract the tarball downloaded and create a folder Openerp and move the tarball and extract it there, rename it to Openerp-6.1

10)Switch the workspace folder to created Openerp folder and create a new Pydev project in eclipse named Openerp-6.1.
New-> project –> Pydev –> Pydev project
project name – Openerp-6.1
check Use default
Press F5 after creating the project to refresh the workspace.

11)In Eclipse package explorer, Rename openerp-server in Openerp-6.1 folder to openerp-server.py.
Right Click on, openerp-server.py –> Run as –> Python run.

Openerp web can be accessed from the browser through browser http://localhost:8069.

Hope this blog might be helpful.

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Anonymous says:

March 11, 2012 at 1:56 pm

Hi Fahad, great blog. It’s really helpful to openerp newbie like me.
But I think you need to install Babel

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1. romar says:
  
  March 24, 2012 at 1:59 pm
  
  Hi Fahad,
  Great article. I blindly followed the steps, and it worked like a charm… Except for the babel dependency. Another one of your readers has also figured this out.
  I fixed this by installing python-pybabel:
  sudo apt-get install python-pybabel
  Thanks again Fahad.
  
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Openerp newbie says:

March 11, 2012 at 10:28 pm

Hi Fahad, I followed your step and successfully set up the eclipse environment for Openerp.
Bravo!
By the way, do you know how you set the web access port something other than 8069?
Thank you.
Great blogs

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1. fahad says:
  
  March 12, 2012 at 10:23 am
  
  Hi,
  
  Web access port can be changed by running openerp-server with arguements (–xmlrpc-port=<Any other port value>)
  which can be done in eclipse by creating run configuration and passing the arguement (–xmlrpc-port=<Any other port value>).
  
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romar says:

March 19, 2012 at 10:19 pm

Great blog…. Thanks Fahad for your handy tutorials…. They are more useful than the help I got from the official OpenERP forum!

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Jay Maniar says:

April 11, 2012 at 4:28 pm

Hello Dear,
Thanks for writing the such an important & nice blog for installation. I have followed the steps you have mentioned in this blog. But I am getting the following error.
Error response
Error code 404.
Message: Path not found: /.
Error code explanation: 404 = Nothing matches the given URI.
Thanks in advance.

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1. fahad says:
  
  April 24, 2012 at 12:14 pm
  
  Hi,
  
  Could you please check the openerp-server log,it might be logged if something gone wrong.
  
  Regards,
  fahad
  
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Asfak Balooch says:

April 24, 2012 at 12:11 pm

AA, Great Post, Going to follow this up soon… 🙂 KH.

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SiriusSols says:

April 24, 2012 at 2:58 pm

Thanks for Sharing…

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Vincent says:

April 25, 2012 at 12:40 am

I’m trying to connect locally to the database via pgAdmin, but it doesn’t work.
What user/pass should I use?
Thanks!

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1. fahad says:
  
  April 25, 2012 at 10:22 am
  
  Hi,
  
  Please type the following commands in the command line.
  
  sudo su postgres
  psql
  
  Run this query "Alter user <system-user> with password 'admin';"
  
  \q to quit and ctrl+d to exit
  now you can login using <system username> as username and password admin.
  
  Regards,
  Fahad
  
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Vincent says:

May 19, 2012 at 9:12 pm

XML syntax highlight
Hi Fahad,
I did not find how to add the syntax higlight for XML files.
Can you help me on this?
Thank you again for your great help!
Vincent

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1. fahad says:
  
  September 3, 2012 at 10:26 am
  
  Hi vincent,
  
  XML syntax could be highllighted by installing xml editor plugins, which could be installed as follows
  
  Help –> Install new software –> select (eclipse version name) Update Site from the dropdown –> Web, XML, and JAVA EE develpoment — > Eclipse XML editors and Tools
  
  check the box and give for install.
  
  Regards,
  Fahad
  
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June 3, 2012 at 7:14 pm

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Donatas says:

September 13, 2012 at 8:35 pm

Works nicely on CentOS 6 x86_64 with XFCE desktop. Here is the link to Fedora 16/17 installation guide. With little adjustments (mainly for PostgreSQL 9.1 installation) it can be used for CentOS 6 too. CentOS 5 is not worth trying. Hope this will help to someone.

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Dale E. Moore says:

November 12, 2012 at 10:37 pm

This is a lovely post and very helpful; thanks!
But, I’m a little confused. Why would the Eclipse run catch a breakpoint from my LIVE code?
I have the OpenERP source setup under workspace as Eclipse likes for DEVelopment and I have another instance of OpenERP installed in the normal /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/openerp LIVE location. I turn off my LIVE instance with “service openerp stop” then run the DEV instance via Eclipse. Everything seems to be working fine until I encounter some code that does not exist in the Eclipse instance and catch a pdb.set_trace() breakpoint I’d set in my LIVE code.
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/openerp/addons/insurance_report/report/bill_report.py(52)invoice_rows()
-> res[‘quantity’] = self.formatLang(entry.quantity, digits=self.get_digits(dp=’Account’))
(Pdb) l
How did the LIVE code get executed by the Eclipse DEV instance?
DaleEMoore@gMail.Com

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