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OpenERP Server Installation On Fedora 11

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

OpenERP Server Installation On Fedora 11