Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Installing dependencies

When using a Debian distribution, by default your login is root with administrator powers, and your Command Prompt shows #. On Ubuntu systems, the root account is disabled, and the initial user configured during the installation process is a sudoer, meaning it's allowed to use the sudo command to run commands with root privileges.

First, we should update the package index and then perform an upgrade to ensure that all installed programs are up to date, as follows:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade -y

Next, we'll install the PostgreSQL database and make our user a database superuser with the following code:

$ sudo apt install postgresql -y
$ sudo su -c "createuser -s $USER" postgres

We'll be running Odoo from source, ...