OpenERP Server Installation On Fedora 11

This article will show you how to set up OpenERP on Fedora 11. Open ERP (formerly named Tiny ERP) is the leader open-source ERP/CRM system written mostly in Python and initiated in Belgium. It offers a three-tier web architecture, ease of use and flexibility.

Grab the Super User Access:

su root

Enable EPEL Repo:

su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm'

yum update

Update the Installation Repository.

Start Installing Packages.

yum install postgresql-server

yum install postgresql

If the default database instance is not created then you need to init the db.

su root

su postgres

initdb /var/lib/pgsql/data

su postgres

psql -l

yum install python-psycopg2

yum install python-lxml

yum install PyXML

yum install python-setuptools-devel

easy_install egenix-mx-base

yum install libxslt-python

yum install pytz

yum install python-matplotlib

-----------          Grab the OpenERP Server and Client        -------------

wget http://openerp.com/download/stable/source/openerp-server-5.0.1-0.tar.gz

tar -xvf openerp-server-5.0.1-0.tar.gz

cd openerp-server-5.0.1-0

python openerp-server.py

wget http://openerp.com/download/stable/source/openerp-client-5.0.1-0.tar.gz

tar  -xvf openerp-client-5.0.1-0

cd openerp-client-5.0.1-0

python openerp-client.py

References:
Enable EPEL Repository: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse