3 Openbravo ERP Installation

Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/openbravo/ and download the latest Openbravo ERP installer (select 02-openbravo-installers on the download page), e.g. as follows on an i386 system...

cd /tmp/
wget http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/openbravo/OpenbravoERP_2.40-linux-installer.bin

... and like this on an x86_64 system:

cd /tmp/
wget http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/openbravo/OpenbravoERP_2.40-linux-x64-installer.bin

Then make the installer executable...

i386:

chmod +x OpenbravoERP_2.40-linux-installer.bin

x86_64:

chmod +x OpenbravoERP_2.40-linux-x64-installer.bin

... and start the Openbravo ERP installation:

i386:

./OpenbravoERP_2.40-linux-installer.bin

x86_64:

./OpenbravoERP_2.40-linux-x64-installer.bin

A text based installer will guide you through the installation. First press a few times ENTER to read the single parts of the license agreement. Type in yes at the end if you agree with it:

Do you accept this license? [y/n]: <-- y

Before the installation begins you'll be asked a few questions - answer them as follows:

Please specify the directory where Openbravo ERP will be installed

[/opt/OpenbravoERP]: <-- ENTER

Please specify a directory for the Openbravo ERP attachments

[/opt/OpenbravoERP/AppsOpenbravo/attachments]: <-- ENTER

Installation mode

Please select the installation mode you wish to perform

[1] Complete
The database and the application server in the same computer
[2] Distributed
The database and the application server in different computers
Please choose an option [1] : <-- ENTER

Please select the installation type you wish to perform

[1] Standard
Installs the database and sets up the application server.
Recommended.
[2] Development
Installs the database and and sets up the application server
through a compilation process.
Recommended for developers.
Please choose an option [1] : <-- ENTER

Please specify the directory where the JDK is located

[/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun]: <-- ENTER

Please specify the location where the Ant executable is located

[/usr/share/ant/bin/ant]: <-- ENTER

Please specify the directory where Tomcat is located.
In case of having Tomcat split into 2 directories, select the one containing the webapps directory

[/var/lib/tomcat5.5]: <-- ENTER

Please select a database

[1] PostgreSQL
[2] Oracle
Please choose an option [1] : <-- ENTER

Please specify the directory where the binaries of the PostgreSQL installation are located (psql, pg_restore, vacuumdb)

[/usr/bin]: <-- ENTER

Please enter the IP address of the PostgreSQL database

Database host [localhost]: <-- ENTER

Please enter the port of the PostgreSQL database

Database port [5432]: <-- ENTER

Enter the password for your "postgres" administrator user

Password : <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Retype password : <-- yourrootsqlpassword

Please enter the name of the PostgreSQL database

Database name [openbravo]: <-- ENTER

Please enter a username for the Openbravo ERP PostgreSQL database

Username [tad]: <-- ENTER

Please enter a password for the new database user

Password : <-- tadsqlpassword (a password of your choice)
Retype password : <-- tadsqlpassword

Enter a context name.

This is used in the URL to access Openbravo ERP:
http://<ip_address>:<port>/context_name

Context name [openbravo]: <-- ENTER

Please select the preferred date and time formats

Date format

Date format

[1] DD MM YYYY
[2] MM DD YYYY
[3] YYYY MM DD
Please choose an option [1] : <-- ENTER

Date separator

[1] -
[2] /
[3] .
[4] :
Please choose an option [1] : <-- ENTER

Time format

[1] 12h
[2] 24h
Please choose an option [2] : <-- ENTER

Time separator

[1] :
[2] .
Please choose an option [1] : <-- ENTER

Should the installer populate the database with demo data?

[Y/n]: <-- ENTER

Setup is now ready to begin installing Openbravo ERP on your computer.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n]: <-- ENTER

The installation will take a few minutes, so please be patient:

Please wait while Setup installs Openbravo ERP on your computer.

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Setup has finished installing Openbravo ERP on your computer.

Afterwards you can access Openbravo at http://server1.example.com:8180/openbravo or http://192.168.0.100:8180/openbravo. Log in with the username Openbravo and the password openbravo.

4 Links

• Openbravo: http://www.openbravo.com/
• Openbravo user manual: http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/index.php/User_Manual
• Debian: http://www.debian.org/