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.