Odoo 12 Community Edition Installation & Setup on Windows 10
Hello World!
In my first Medium post, I would like to explain how one can install Odoo, specifically Odoo Nightly 12 Community Edition, on Windows 10. This post is also made to fulfill the requirements of the first personal assignment of the ERP Configuration course in the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia.
First and foremost, what exactly is Odoo? Quoted from their website,
Odoo is a suite of open source business apps that cover all your company needs: CRM, eCommerce, accounting, inventory, point of sale, project management, etc.
Now, since we have learned about what Odoo is, we can proceed to the tutorial.
1 - Downloading the required file
The first step we need to do to install Odoo on Windows is, of course, getting the installer. We can fetch the installer by accessing the website nightly.odoo.com and selecting the preferred version. Since we are going to use Odoo 12, click on the associated button. After that, we are redirected to choose which file format and version of Odoo to download. In this case, I picked windows/ and the latest version.
2 - Installing Odoo on your computer
Now that we’ve downloaded the required file, it’s time to install the application on your device. First, run the executable file that we’ve downloaded. And then, after agreeing with the terms and conditions, we are given the choice of whether to install Odoo with or without PostgreSQL, the DBMS on which Odoo runs.
After selecting the preferred package, we can continue the installation process by setting up how Odoo will connect with said DBMS (PostgreSQL). I suggest leaving said configuration as is. Should the need arise, we can change the settings later by changing the file named odoo.conf in your Odoo folder.
After we’ve finalized the configuration, the installation process will start. Mind you, since Odoo is a complex system, the process might take a while. After the installation process has finished, it’s time to do the final step.
3 - Setting up the database and initialization
After we have successfully installed Odoo on our computer, it’s time to set up the database. When launching Odoo for the first time, we need to fill out some forms to initialize the database on our system. Fill out all the necessary spaces and click on dummy data if you need to populate the database with premade data from Odoo.
After ticking and filling out all the required forms, we can click create database to initialize the database on our system. It might take a while for the database to be initialized (In my experience, more than 5 minutes). Odoo homepage will appear after the database has been initialized.
That’s it! We’ve completed the installation process and are now able to open Odoo on our local server. I hope this guide has been of help, and Follow my Medium for more articles.
Thanks for reading!
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