odoo 8 installation in ubuntu 14.04

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Step 1. Build your server

    sudo apt-get install openssh-server
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
    
Step 2. Create the Odoo user that will own and run the application
    sudo adduser --system --home=/opt/odoo --group odoo
    sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash
    exit
    
Step 3. Install and configure the database server, PostgreSQL
    sudo apt-get install postgresql
    sudo su - postgres
    
    Now create a new database user. This is so Odoo has access rights to connect to PostgreSQL and to create and drop databases.            Remember what your choice of password is here; you will need it later on:

    createuser --createdb --username postgres --no-createrole --no-superuser --pwprompt odoo
    Enter password for new role: ********
    Enter it again: ********

    Finally exit from the postgres user account:

    exit

Step 4. Install the necessary Python libraries for the server
    sudo apt-get install python-dateutil python-decorator python-docutils python-feedparser \
    python-gdata python-gevent python-imaging python-jinja2 python-ldap python-libxslt1 python-lxml \
    python-mako python-mock python-openid python-passlib python-psutil python-psycopg2 python-pybabel \
    python-pychart python-pydot python-pyparsing python-pypdf python-reportlab python-requests \
    python-simplejson python-tz python-unittest2 python-vatnumber python-vobject python-werkzeug \
    python-xlwt python-yaml wkhtmltopdf
    
Step 5. Install the Odoo server
    Install Git.
    sudo apt-get install git

    Switch to the Odoo user:
    sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash

    Grab a copy of the most current Odoo 8 branch (Note the “.” at the end of this command!):
    git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo --depth 1 --branch 8.0 --single-branch .
    (This might take a little while depending on the speed of your Internet connection.)
    
    Note: Thanks to Ian Beardslee for the cluebat. Have now added --depth 1 to the command so it only retrieves the latest version         without all the history. The download is now quite a bit quicker.
    
    Once it’s finished exit from the odoo user: exit.
    
Step 6. Configuring the OpenERP application
    The default configuration file for the server (/opt/odoo/debian/openerp-server.conf) is actually very minimal and will, with            only a small change work fine so we’ll copy that file to where we need it and change it’s ownership and permissions:
    
    sudo cp /opt/odoo/debian/openerp-server.conf /etc/odoo-server.conf
    sudo chown odoo: /etc/odoo-server.conf
    sudo chmod 640 /etc/odoo-server.conf
    
    The above commands make the file owned and writeable only by the odoo user and group and only readable by odoo and root.
    
    To allow the odoo server to run initially, you should only need to change two lines in this file. Toward to the top of the file         change the line db_password = False to the same password you used back in step 3. Then modify the line addons_path = /usr/lib           /python2.7/dist-packages/openerp/addons so that it reads addons_path = /opt/odoo/addons instead.
    
    One other line we might as well add to the configuration file now, is to tell Odoo where to write its log file. To complement my        suggested location below add the following line to the odoo-server.conf file:
    
    logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log
    
    Use your favourite text editor here. I tend to use nano, e.g.
    
    sudo nano /etc/odoo-server.conf
    
    Once the configuration file is edited and saved, you can start the server just to check if it actually runs.
    
    sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash
    /opt/odoo/openerp-server
    
    If you end up with a few lines eventually saying OpenERP (Yes. The log still says OpenERP and not Odoo) is running and waiting for      connections then you are all set.
    
    If there are errors, you’ll need to go back and find out where the problem is.
    
    Otherwise simply enter CTL+C to stop the server and then exit to leave the openerp user account and go back to your own shell.
Step 7. Installing the boot script
        For the final step we need to install a script which will be used to start-up and shut down the server automatically and also           run the application as the correct user. There is a script you can use in /opt/odoo/debian/init but this will need a few small          modifications to work with the system installed the way I have described above. Here’s a link to the one I’ve already modified          for Odoo version 8.
    
    Similar to the configuration file, you need to either copy it or paste the contents of this script to a file in /etc/init.d/ and        call it odoo-server. Once it is in the right place you will need to make it executable and owned by root:
    
    sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/odoo-server
    sudo chown root: /etc/init.d/odoo-server
    
    In the configuration file there’s an entry for the server’s log file. We need to create that directory first so that the server has     somewhere to log to and also we must make it writeable by the openerp user:
    sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo
    sudo chown odoo:root /var/log/odoo



  this the openerp-server.conf file content 
=======================================================================================================================================  
  #!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:             odoo-server
# Required-Start:       $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:        $remote_fs $syslog
# Should-Start:         $network
# Should-Stop:          $network
# Default-Start:        2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:         0 1 6
# Short-Description:    Complete Business Application software
# Description:          Odoo is a complete suite of business tools.
### END INIT INFO

PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/opt/odoo/openerp-server
NAME=odoo-server
DESC=odoo-server

# Specify the user name (Default: odoo).
USER=odoo

# Specify an alternate config file (Default: /etc/odoo-server.conf).
CONFIGFILE="/etc/odoo-server.conf"

# pidfile
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid

# Additional options that are passed to the Daemon.
DAEMON_OPTS="-c $CONFIGFILE"

[ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0
[ -f $CONFIGFILE ] || exit 0

checkpid() {
    [ -f $PIDFILE ] || return 1
    pid=`cat $PIDFILE`
    [ -d /proc/$pid ] && return 0
    return 1
}

case "${1}" in
        start)
                echo -n "Starting ${DESC}: "

                start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \
                        --chuid ${USER} --background --make-pidfile \
                        --exec ${DAEMON} -- ${DAEMON_OPTS}

                echo "${NAME}."
                ;;

        stop)
                echo -n "Stopping ${DESC}: "

                start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \
                        --oknodo

                echo "${NAME}."
                ;;

        restart|force-reload)
                echo -n "Restarting ${DESC}: "

                start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \
                        --oknodo
      
                sleep 1

                start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \
                        --chuid ${USER} --background --make-pidfile \
                        --exec ${DAEMON} -- ${DAEMON_OPTS}

                echo "${NAME}."
                ;;

        *)
                N=/etc/init.d/${NAME}
                echo "Usage: ${NAME} {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
                exit 1
                ;;
esac

exit 0
======================================================================================================================================

copy that above content and paste it in /etc/init.d/odoo-server 

Step 8. Testing the server
    To start the Odoo server type:

    sudo /etc/init.d/odoo-server start

    You should now be able to view the logfile and see that the server has started.

    less /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log
    What I do recommend you do at this point is to change the super admin password to something nice and strong (Click the “Password”     menu). By default this password is just “admin” and knowing that, a user can create, backup, restore and drop databases! This password     is stored in plain text in the /etc/odoo-server.conf file; hence why we restricted access to just odoo and root. When you change and     save the new password the /etc/odoo-server.conf file will be re-written and will have a lot more options in it.

    Now it’s time to make sure the server stops properly too:

    sudo /etc/init.d/odoo-server stop
    Check the log file again to make sure it has stopped and/or look at your server’s process list.

Step 9. Automating Odoo startup and shutdown
    If everything above seems to be working OK, the final step is make the script start and stop automatically with the Ubuntu Server.      To do this type:

    sudo update-rc.d odoo-server defaults

    You can now try rebooting you server if you like. Odoo should be running by the time you log back in.

    If you type ps aux | grep odoo you should see a line similar to this:

    odoo 1491 0.1 10.6 207132 53596 ? Sl 22:23 0:02 python /opt/odoo/openerp-server -c /etc/odoo-server.conf