Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Installing Odoo from source

To keep things organized, we will work in a /odoo-dev directory inside our home directory. Throughout the book, we will assume that the /odoo-dev is the directory where your Odoo server is installed.

Odoo 12 uses Python 3, specifically 3.5 or later. This means that on the command line, we should use python3 and pip3, instead of python and pip.

Changed in Odoo 11 Starting from version 11, Odoo runs on Python 3.5 or later. Odoo 11 still runs on Python 2.7, but Odoo 12 only runs on Python 3.5+. Odoo 10 and before only run on Python 2.7.

To install Odoo from source, we start by cloning the Odoo source code directly from GitHub:

$ mkdir ~/odoo-dev  # Create a directory to work in
$ cd ~/odoo-dev # Go into our work directory ...