How to Install Odoo 15 in CentOS 7 – Troubleshooting Recent Errors

Installing Odoo 15 along with the CentOS 7 and the latest PGSQL repo has changed pretty a lot. I will try to cover solutions to a few errors along with the straightforward steps on installing Odoo 15 in CentOS 7.

First Step First

Update your CentOS 7 installation and install Epel-release

yum update -y
yum install epel-release

Install Python 3.8

We will use Python 3.8 for Odoo 15. We will use Software Collection Repository or SCL to install our Python binary. You may find details of SCL here:

SCL Repository

First, install SCL in CentOS:

yum install centos-release-scl -y

Once done, you can now install Python 3.8 using the following:

yum install rh-python38 -y

Also, install python38-devel as Python.h is used to compile psycopg2 and python-ldap package. From Odoo 15, you need this to get going:

yum install rh-python38-python-devel -y

Note: The above is used to resolve an error like the following

fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory

Now, we will install a few prerequisites to install Odoo 15. One difference between the old version installed and the new is that you need to load GCC-c+ now along with the GCC compiler. Otherwise, you will see an error like the following:

gcc: error trying to exec ‘cc1plus’: execvp: No such file or directory

So, to install the pre-requisites, run the following:

yum install git gcc nano wget nodejs-less libxslt-devel bzip2-devel openldap-devel libjpeg-devel freetype-devel gcc-c++ -y

Once done, now, you can create the user odoo:

useradd -m -U -r -d  /opt/odoo -s /bin/bash odoo

We are done with the primary setup, now we move to install database

Install PostgreSQL 13 in CentOS 7

To install PGSQL 13 in CentOS 7, you need to first install the pgsql official repository. You may install this using the following:

yum -y install https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm

Once done, now you can install PostgreSQL 13 and related things:

yum install postgresql13 postgresql13-server postgresql13-contrib postgresql13-libs -y

Once done, now can you initiate the PostgreSQL and start the database server

/usr/pgsql-13/bin/postgresql-13-setup initdb
systemctl start postgresql-13.service
systemctl enable postgresql-13.service

# create the postgres user odoo
su - postgres -c "createuser -s odoo"

Brilliant, now, one more additional thing we need to resolve. With the latest Postgresql 13, you might still not be able to use the libpq. You need to install it manually. Otherwise, you will see an error like the following:

fatal error: libpq-fe.h: No such file or directory

To resolve this error, you need to install these libraries manually with the following command:

yum install libpq5 libpq5-devel -y

Remember to install libpq5-devel as the source of the libpq would be used to compile psycopg2.

Install Wkhtmltox

Now, let’s move to the next step of installing wkhtmltox. The version for wkhtmltox has remained the same for pretty long. The following shall work till now:

cd /opt
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm

This specific tool is used to generate reports in Odoo, without this, you might not be able to use pdf/html reports using Qweb in Odoo.

Final Step: Install and Configure Odoo 15

We will here download the source from Github and install all the dependent packages. First, we switch to the user odoo

su - odoo

Now, clone the git repo for Odoo 15 to a folder odoo15 using the following:

git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo --depth 1 --branch 15.0 /opt/odoo/odoo15

Once done, now, we can enable python3.8 and create a virtual environment for our Odoo installation. First, enable the Python3.8 using scl:

scl enable rh-python38 bash

Now create a virtual environment for our Odoo15 installation:

cd /opt/odoo
python3 -m venv odoo15-venv

Activate the virtual environment we just created

source odoo15-venv/bin/activate

Now, we upgrade the pip and install wheel package:

pip install --upgrade pip
pip3 install wheel

Now, before we can install the requirements file using pip3 package installer, here is an error you will face when compiling psycopg2

Error: pg_config executable not found.

Now the problem is understandable, pg_config file is usually placed under the binary folder of pgsql which is:

/usr/pgsql-13/bin

For some reason, our installer fails to identify this. To solve the issue, we first, load this in the $PATH variable before running pip3 for requirements.

export PATH=/usr/pgsql-13/bin/:$PATH

Now, you can run the pip3 installer:

pip3 install -r odoo15/requirements.txt

This shall be complete without any error if you have solved the solutions I had given above. If any of them are missed, you should double-check all the mentioned errors above.

Now exit the venv:

deactivate && exit ; exit

Now, the first step for configuration, edit the /etc/odoo.conf file

nano /etc/odoo.conf

Paste the following:

[options]
; This is the password that allows database operations:
admin_passwd = set_the_password_to_create_odoo_database
db_host = False
db_port = False
db_user = odoo
db_password = False
addons_path = /opt/odoo/odoo15/addons
; You can enable log file with uncommenting the next line
; logfile = /var/log/odoo15/odoo.log

Replace ‘set_the_password_to_create_odoo_database’ with the one you want to use to allow odoo installer to create the database for you.

Odoo15 Service File

Now, we will create a service file to start/stop/restart our Odoo 15 installation.

nano /etc/systemd/system/odoo15.service

Paste the following:

[Unit]
Description=Odoo15
Requires=postgresql-13.service
After=network.target postgresql-13.service

[Service]
Type=simple
SyslogIdentifier=odoo15
PermissionsStartOnly=true
User=odoo
Group=odoo
ExecStart=/usr/bin/scl enable rh-python38 -- /opt/odoo/odoo15-venv/bin/python3 /opt/odoo/odoo15/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo.conf
StandardOutput=journal+console

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

We are now done with the service installation.

Now reload the system daemon:

systemctl daemon-reload

Finally, now we can start Odoo 15 with the following:

systemctl start odoo15

Check the status:

[root@cloud-accounts ~]# systemctl status odoo15
● odoo15.service - Odoo15
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/odoo15.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-12-27 08:47:30 EST; 42min ago
 Main PID: 5012 (scl)
   CGroup: /system.slice/odoo15.service
           ├─5012 /usr/bin/scl enable rh-python38 -- /opt/odoo/odoo15-venv/bin/python3 /opt/odoo/odoo15/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo.conf
           ├─5013 /bin/bash /var/tmp/sclAlWADi
           └─5016 /opt/odoo/odoo15-venv/bin/python3 /opt/odoo/odoo15/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo.conf

Dec 27 08:47:30 cloud-accounts systemd[1]: Started Odoo15.

You can enable the Odoo15 when the system reboots

systemctl enable odoo15

Now, if you want to enable logging, uncomment the following line from /etc/odoo.conf

logfile = /var/log/odoo15/odoo.log

If everything goes right, you should now be able to access the Odoo in port 8069:

http://ip:8069

How to fix ‘underclocking’ Ryzen (5600x) Processors in OpenVZ 7 / CentOS 7 / OpenVZ 8

Question

My CPU is reporting underclocked eg. 2200Mhz while the actual CPU frequency is much higher (eg 3700Mhz for Ryzen 5600x)

Resolution

This issue appears because by default OpenVZ 7 / CentOS 7 uses a conservative approach to save your power. This approach is implemented using a tool called ‘CPUFREQ’. In OpenVZ 7, you can access this using the command ‘cpupower’.

CPUFreq comes with a set of profiles. There are profiles like ‘conservative’ or ‘ondemand’ which saves power for you by underclocking your CPU, while there is other profile, like ‘performance’ that gives the full power of your CPU.

By default, cpufreq uses ‘conservative’ or ‘ondemand’ profile, which is why you usually see the clock is under the maximum power you have.

To see the available governors or profile you have on your system, you may use the following:

cpupower frequency-info --governors

To see the cpufreq settings, you may see them from:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/[cpuid]/cpufreq/.

Replace cpuid with the CPU number.

Now, to change the underclocking of your CPU to the regular CPU clock, you may use the following command to set the governors to performance:

cpupower frequency-set --governor performance

This shall put your CPU back to 3700Mhz.

Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine user of subject – Cyberpanel – CentOS 7

Error details:

After installing cyberpanel, you see the below error from shell when running any command:

** (pkttyagent:8559): WARNING **: 02:28:34.621: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine user of subject
Error registering authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine user of subject (polkit-error-quark, 0)

Resolution:

The error is appearing because cybepranel adds the following line in your fstab:

proc    /proc        proc        defaults,hidepid=2    0 0

This is hiding the /proc from your shell that uses polkit. To fix this, keeping the above mount rule, you need to add a group for polkitd user and assign that group to to access /proc. You may do this using the following:

groupadd nohideproc
usermod -a -G nohideproc polkitd
mount -o remount,rw,hidepid=2,gid=nohideproc /proc
systemctl restart polkit
systemctl restart polkit (do this twice)

Once done, you may edit your fstab, and comment the old line, add the following line:

# Edit your fstab:
nano /etc/fstab

# comment the following line :
from : proc    /proc        proc        defaults,hidepid=2    0 0
to : # proc    /proc        proc        defaults,hidepid=2    0 0

# add the following line
proc /proc proc defaults,hidepid=2,gid=nohidproc 0 0

Good luck.

How to Use Memtest+ to Test Your RAM

If you suspect an issue with your system RAM, you should try to use a tool, that will write data in 100% of your RAM and let you know the errors it could get. One such tool available for linux is ‘Memtest+’

How to install memtest+ in CentOS 7

To install memtest+, run the following command in yum:

yum install memtest86+

Now, this will install memtest+ for you. But memtest+ runs the memory test at boot time. To accomplish that, you need to install memtest+ in grub. Memtest+ comes with a command, that does it for you. Run the following to do this:

memtest-setup

This would install the memtest for grub. But you would still need to remake the grub.cfg file for CentOS 7. To do that, run the following:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Now, reboot the server and select memtest from the boot screen. Memtest will automatically complete the process and let you know the result on that screen.

Install Elasticsearch in Cpanel – CentOS / java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.sun.jna.Native

If you are trying to install the Elasticsearch 7.* in CentOS and Cpanel, you are probably seeing your Elasticsearch is installed, but not starting with an error like the following:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.sun.jna.Native
        at org.elasticsearch.systemd.Libsystemd.lambda$static$0(Libsystemd.java:23) ~[?:?]
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:318) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.systemd.Libsystemd.<clinit>(Libsystemd.java:22) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.systemd.SystemdPlugin.sd_notify(SystemdPlugin.java:115) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.systemd.SystemdPlugin.onNodeStarted(SystemdPlugin.java:126) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1511) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.start(Node.java:998) ~[elasticsearch-7.15.1.jar:7.15.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:313) ~[elasticsearch-7.15.1.jar:7.15.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:408) ~[elasticsearch-7.15.1.jar:7.15.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:167) ~[elasticsearch-7.15.1.jar:7.15.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:158) ~[elasticsearch-7.15.1.jar:7.15.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:75) ~[elasticsearch-7.15.1.jar:7.15.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:114) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.15.1.jar:7.15.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:79) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.15.1.jar:7.15.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:123) ~[elasticsearch-7.15.1.jar:7.15.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:81) ~[elasticsearch-7.15.1.jar:7.15.1]

The error appears if your tmp directory is not writable and executable by Elasticsearch. You need to make two changes, to make Elasticsearch start for you.

First, edit the elasticsearch sysconfig file:

nano /etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch

and add the following line:

ES_TMPDIR=/tmp

Next, you need to mount /tmp with exec permission, which is normally mounted with noexec permission in Cpanel:

mount -o remount,exec /tmp

You should be done now, you may start your Elasticsearch:

service elasticsearch start

Please also remember, Elasticsearch needs at least 3GB of RAM to start. If you have lower RAM than that, you are probably hitting OOM killer of the system.

Odoo Error – virtual real time limit (151/120s) reached.

There are times, when you might suddenly see your Odoo is shutdown automatically, without warning. Once you enable to logging, you could see an error like the following:

virtual real time limit (151/120s) reached.

or in full details like the following

2021-04-22 06:46:44,054 32685 WARNING ? odoo.service.server: Thread <Thread(odoo.service.http.request.140015617943296, started 140015617943296)> virtual real time limit (151/120s) reached.
2021-04-22 06:46:44,054 32685 INFO ? odoo.service.server: Dumping stacktrace of limit exceeding threads before reloading
2021-04-22 06:46:44,060 32685 INFO ? odoo.tools.misc:
# Thread: <Thread(odoo.service.http.request.140015617943296, started 140015617943296)> (db:n/a) (uid:n/a) (url:n/a)
File: "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py", line 884, in _bootstrap
  self._bootstrap_inner()
File: "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py", line 916, in _bootstrap_inner
  self.run()
File: "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py", line 864, in run
  self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File: "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/socketserver.py", line 654, in process_request_thread
  self.finish_request(request, client_address)
File: "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/socketserver.py", line 364, in finish_request
  self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
File: "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/socketserver.py", line 724, in __init__
  self.handle()
File: "/opt/odoo/odoo14-venv/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/werkzeug/serving.py", line 329, in handle
  rv = BaseHTTPRequestHandler.handle(self)
File: "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/http/server.py", line 418, in handle
  self.handle_one_request()
File: "/opt/odoo/odoo14-venv/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/werkzeug/serving.py", line 360, in handle_one_request
  self.raw_requestline = self.rfile.readline()
File: "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/socket.py", line 586, in readinto
  return self._sock.recv_into(b)
2021-04-22 06:46:44,060 32685 INFO ? odoo.service.server: Initiating server reload

This is because Odoo is killing zombie processes and probably mistakenly crashing your Odoo completely while doing so. The parameter that is used for this purpose, can be found in Odoo documentation:

https://www.odoo.com/documentation/14.0/reference/cmdline.html

--limit-time-real <limit>
Prevents the worker from taking longer than <limit> seconds to process a request. If the limit is exceeded, the worker is killed.

Differs from --limit-time-cpu in that this is a “wall time” limit including e.g. SQL queries.

Defaults to 120.

You may start your service command with something like –limit-time-real 100000 to avoid Odoo from auto killing processes. A command could look like the following if you edit your service file located at:

/etc/systemd/system/odoo14.service

The exec would be like the following:

ExecStart=/usr/bin/scl enable rh-python36 -- /opt/odoo/odoo14-venv/bin/python3 /opt/odoo/odoo14/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo.conf --limit-time-real=100000

Once the change is done, save the file, and reload the system daemon and restart your Odoo

systemctl daemon-reload
service odoo14 restart

How to Setup Odoo 14 in CentOS 7

Odoo is currently one of the most popular tool for business purposes. It has a community edition, that allows managing ERP at very low cost. Odoo was previously known as OpenERP. Odoo requires to be installed on a dedicated server or VPS. Odoo 14 had come out already. I will have a straight forward how to on installing the latest Odoo 14 in CentOS 7.

Log in to your system and update

First step would be to login to your system and then update the system using yum.

ssh root@server_ip

You may check the CentOS version from the redhat release file using the following:

cat /etc/redhat-release

It should show you something like the following if you

CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core)

Now, you may try updating the system with yum

yum update -y

Once done, now install the EPEL repository as we need it to satisfy a couple of dependecies:

yum install epel-release

Install Python 3.6 packages and Odoo dependencies

We need Python 3.6 at least to run Odoo 14. Odoo 13 also ran on Python 3.6. We will use ‘Software Collection (scl)’ repository to install and use Python 3.6. To find the available Python versions in SCL, you may check the following:

SCL Repository for Python

Now, to install Python 3.6 using SCL, we first need to install the SCL repository for Centos:

yum install centos-release-scl

Once the SCL is loaded, now, you may install the python 3.6 using the following command:

yum install rh-python36

Once the Python is installed, now we will install several tools and packages for Odoo dependencies with the following command:

yum install git gcc nano wget nodejs-less libxslt-devel bzip2-devel openldap-devel libjpeg-devel freetype-devel

Create Odoo User

We now need to create a system user and group for Odoo and define a home directory to /opt/odoo

useradd -m -U -r -d  /opt/odoo -s /bin/bash odoo

You may use any username here, but remember to create the same username for the PostgreSQL as well.

Install PostgreSQL

CentOS base repository unfortunately, comes with Postgresql 9.2. But we want to use PostgreSQL 10 for our Odoo installation. You may check the available PostgreSQL for CentOS 7 using the following command:

yum list postgresql*

As by default CentOS 7 does not provide the PostgreSQL 10, we would use PostgreSQL official repository to download and install the 10 version.

First, we install the Postgres Yum Repository using the following command:

yum install https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/10/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm

Now, you may install PostgreSQL 10 and related required packages using the following command:

yum install postgresql10 postgresql10-server postgresql10-contrib postgresql10-libs -y

Now, we need to initialize the postgres database and start it. You may do that using the following:

# Initialize the DB
/usr/pgsql-10/bin/postgresql-10-setup initdb

# Start the database
systemctl start postgresql-10.service

If everything goes alright, now you may check the postgresql 10 status:

[root@docker bin]# systemctl status postgresql-10.service
● postgresql-10.service - PostgreSQL 10 database server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postgresql-10.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-04-05 16:42:15 EDT; 5s ago
     Docs: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/
  Process: 6380 ExecStartPre=/usr/pgsql-10/bin/postgresql-10-check-db-dir ${PGDATA} (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 6386 (postmaster)
    Tasks: 8
   Memory: 13.5M
   CGroup: /system.slice/postgresql-10.service
           ├─6386 /usr/pgsql-10/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/10/data/
           ├─6388 postgres: logger process
           ├─6390 postgres: checkpointer process
           ├─6391 postgres: writer process
           ├─6392 postgres: wal writer process
           ├─6393 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
           ├─6394 postgres: stats collector process
           └─6395 postgres: bgworker: logical replication launcher

Now you may enable Postgres to start when booting up using the systemctl enable command:

systemctl enable postgresql-10.service

Now, we need to create a database user for our Odoo installation. You may do that using the following:

su - postgres -c "createuser -s odoo"

Note: If you have created a different user for Odoo installation other than ‘odoo’ than you should change the username here as well.

Install Wkhtmltopdf

Wkhtmltopdf is a open source tool to make html in pdf format so that you may print pdf reports. This tool is used by Odoo and requires to be installed as dependency. CentOS 7 repository does not provide the latest version of this tool, and Odoo requires you to use the latest version. Hence, we require to download the latest version from the Wkhtmltopdf website and install it. To do that, you may first visit the page:

https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html

The page gives you the direct rpm download link for each version of CentOS/Ubuntu/Mac etc. Download the stable version for CentOS 7. At the time of writing, the URL for CentOS 7 x86_64 bit is the following:

https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm

You may install this using the following:

cd /opt/
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm

Install and Configure Odoo 14

If you have come all through here, that means you are done with the all dependency installations before starting to download Odoo 14 source code. We will download Odoo 14 from it’s Github repo and use virtualenv to create an isolated python environment to install this python software.

First, login as odoo from root:

su - odoo

Clone the Odoo source code from Github repository:

git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo --depth 1 --branch 14.0 /opt/odoo/odoo14

This will bring the Odoo 14 branch from the Odoo repository and put it inside the folder /opt/odoo/odoo14

Now, we need to enable software collections in order to access python binaries:

scl enable rh-python36 bash

Then we need to create a virtual environment to complete the installation:

cd /opt/odoo
python3 -m venv odoo14-venv

Now, you may activate the virtual environment you have just created:

source odoo14-venv/bin/activate

Now, we upgrade the pip and install the wheel library:

pip install --upgrade pip
pip3 install wheel

Once done, now we can using pip3 to install all the required Python modules from the requirements.txt file:

pip3 install -r odoo14/requirements.txt

Once the installation is complete, now we can deactivate the virtual environment and get back to the root user

deactivate && exit ; exit

If you think, you will create custom modules, you may now create it and give odoo the permission accordingly:

mkdir /opt/odoo/odoo14-custom-addons
chown odoo: /opt/odoo/odoo14-custom-addons

Now, we can fill up the odoo configuration file. First open the odoo.conf file:

nano /etc/odoo.conf

You may paste the following inside:

[options]
; This is the password that allows database operations:
admin_passwd = set_the_password_to_create_odoo_database
db_host = False
db_port = False
db_user = odoo
db_password = False
addons_path = /opt/odoo/odoo14/addons,/opt/odoo/odoo14-custom-addons
; You can enable log file with uncommenting the next line
; logfile = /var/log/odoo14/odoo.log

Please do not forget to change the password ‘set_the_password_to_create_odoo_database’ with a new strong password. This would be used to create Odoo databases from the login screen.

Create the systemd service file and start Odoo 14

Now, we will create a service file, to be able to start, stop and restart Odoo daemon. To do that, first create a service file using the following:

nano /etc/systemd/system/odoo14.service
[Unit]
Description=Odoo14
Requires=postgresql-10.service
After=network.target postgresql-10.service
[Service]
Type=simple
SyslogIdentifier=odoo14
PermissionsStartOnly=true
User=odoo
Group=odoo
ExecStart=/usr/bin/scl enable rh-python36 -- /opt/odoo/odoo14-venv/bin/python3 /opt/odoo/odoo14/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo.conf
StandardOutput=journal+console
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now, save the file and exit.

Now, you need to reload the systemd daemon to be able to read the latest changes you have made to services. To do that, run:

systemctl daemon-reload

Finally, now we can start Odoo 14 instance using the following command:

systemctl start odoo14

If you are interested to check the status of the instance, you may do this:

systemctl status odoo14

It show green active running, if everything worked out. If you see no error, you may now enable Odoo to start during the boot:

systemctl enable odoo14

If you would like to see the logs, you may either use the journal tools like the following:

journalctl -u odoo14

or uncomment the following line to log the debugs in /etc/odoo.conf

logfile = /var/log/odoo14/odoo.log

After making any change to /etc/odoo.conf, do not forget the restart the Odoo14 instance using systemctl.

Test the Installation


Odoo is currently one of the most popular tool for business purposes. It has a community edition, that allows managing ERP at very low cost. Odoo was previously known as OpenERP. Odoo requires to be installed on a dedicated server or VPS. Odoo 13 had come out on October, 2019. Odoo 14 hasn’t been released yet for production. I will have a straight forward how to on installing the latest Odoo 13 in CentOS 7.

Log in to your system and update

First step would be to login to your system and then update the system using yum.ssh root@server_ip

You may check the CentOS version from the redhat release file using the following:cat /etc/redhat-release

It should show you something like the following if youCentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core)

Now, you may try updating the system with yumyum update -y

Once done, now install the EPEL repository as we need it to satisfy a couple of dependecies:yum install epel-release

Install Python 3.6 packages and Odoo dependencies

We need Python 3.6 at least to run Odoo 13. Odoo 12 had support for Python 3.5, unfortunately, Odoo 13 doesn’t. We will use ‘Software Collection (scl)’ repository to install and use Python 3.6. To find the available Python versions in SCL, you may check the following:

SCL Repository for Python

Now, to install Python 3.6 using SCL, we first need to install the SCL repository for Centos:yum install centos-release-scl

Once the SCL is loaded, now, you may install the python 3.6 using the following command:yum install rh-python36

Once the Python is installed, now we will install several tools and packages for Odoo dependencies with the following command:yum install git gcc nano wget nodejs-less libxslt-devel bzip2-devel openldap-devel libjpeg-devel freetype-devel

Create Odoo User

We now need to create a system user and group for Odoo and define a home directory to /opt/odoouseradd -m -U -r -d /opt/odoo -s /bin/bash odoo

You may use any username here, but remember to create the same username for the PostgreSQL as well.

Install PostgreSQL

CentOS base repository unfortunately, comes with Postgresql 9.2. But we want to use PostgreSQL 9.6 for our Odoo installation. You may check the available PostgreSQL for CentOS 7 using the following command:yum list postgresql*

As by default CentOS 7 does not provide the PostgreSQL 9.6, we would use PostgreSQL official repository to download and install the 9.6 version.

First, we install the Postgres Yum Repository using the following command:yum install https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/9.6/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm

Now, you may install PostgreSQL 9.6 and related required packages using the following command:yum install postgresql96 postgresql96-server postgresql96-contrib postgresql96-libs

Now, we need to initialize the postgres database and start it. You may do that using the following:# Initialize the DB/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/postgresql96-setup initdb# Start the databasesystemctl start postgresql-9.6.service

Now you may enable Postgres to start when booting up using the systemctl enable command:systemctl enable postgresql-9.6.service

Now, we need to create a database user for our Odoo installation. You may do that using the following:su – postgres -c “createuser -s odoo”

Note: If you have created a different user for Odoo installation other than ‘odoo’ than you should change the username here as well.

Install Wkhtmltopdf

Wkhtmltopdf is a open source tool to make html in pdf format so that you may print pdf reports. This tool is used by Odoo and requires to be installed as dependency. CentOS 7 repository does not provide the latest version of this tool, and Odoo requires you to use the latest version. Hence, we require to download the latest version from the Wkhtmltopdf website and install it. To do that, you may first visit the page:https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html

The page gives you the direct rpm download link for each version of CentOS/Ubuntu/Mac etc. Download the stable version for CentOS 7. At the time of writing, the URL for CentOS 7 x86_64 bit is the following:https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm

You may install this using the following:cd /opt/wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpmyum localinstall wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm

Install and Configure Odoo 13

If you have come all through here, that means you are done with the all dependency installations before starting to download Odoo 13 source code. We will download Odoo 13 from it’s Github repo and use virtualenv to create an isolated python environment to install this python software.

First, login as odoo from root:su – odoo

Clone the Odoo source code from Github repository:git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo –depth 1 –branch 13.0 /opt/odoo/odoo13

This will bring the Odoo 13 branch from the Odoo repository and put it inside the folder /opt/odoo/odoo13

Now, we need to enable software collections in order to access python binaries:scl enable rh-python36 bash

Then we need to create a virtual environment to complete the installation:cd /opt/odoopython3 -m venv odoo13-venv

Now, you may activate the virtual environment you have just created:source odoo13-venv/bin/activate

Now, we upgrade the pip and install the wheel library:pip install –upgrade pippip3 install wheel

Once done, now we can using pip3 to install all the required Python modules from the requirements.txt file:pip3 install -r odoo13/requirements.txt

Once the installation is complete, now we can deactivate the virtual environment and get back to the root userdeactivate && exit ; exit

If you think, you will create custom modules, you may now create it and give odoo the permission accordingly:mkdir /opt/odoo/odoo13-custom-addonschown odoo: /opt/odoo/odoo13-custom-addons

Now, we can fill up the odoo configuration file. First open the odoo.conf file:nano /etc/odoo.conf

You may paste the following inside:[options]; This is the password that allows database operations:admin_passwd = set_the_password_to_create_odoo_databasedb_host = Falsedb_port = Falsedb_user = odoodb_password = Falseaddons_path = /opt/odoo/odoo13/addons,/opt/odoo/odoo13-custom-addons; You can enable log file with uncommenting the next line; logfile = /var/log/odoo13/odoo.log

Please do not forget to change the password ‘set_the_password_to_create_odoo_database’ with a new strong password. This would be used to create Odoo databases from the login screen.

Create the systemd service file and start Odoo 13

Now, we will create a service file, to be able to start, stop and restart Odoo daemon. To do that, first create a service file using the following:nano /etc/systemd/system/odoo13.service

and paste the following:[Unit]Description=Odoo13Requires=postgresql-9.6.serviceAfter=network.target postgresql-9.6.service[Service]Type=simpleSyslogIdentifier=odoo13PermissionsStartOnly=trueUser=odooGroup=odooExecStart=/usr/bin/scl enable rh-python35 — /opt/odoo/odoo13-venv/bin/python3 /opt/odoo/odoo13/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo.confStandardOutput=journal+console[Install]WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now, save the file and exit.

Now, you need to reload the systemd daemon to be able to read the latest changes you have made to services. To do that, run:systemctl daemon-reload

Finally, now we can start Odoo 13 instance using the following command:systemctl start odoo13

If you are interested to check the status of the instance, you may do this:systemctl status odoo13[root@hr ~]# systemctl status odoo13● odoo13.service – Odoo13 Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/odoo13.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Sun 2020-09-13 08:26:46 EDT; 23h ago Main PID: 24502 (scl) CGroup: /system.slice/odoo13.service ├─24502 /usr/bin/scl enable rh-python36 — /opt/odoo/odoo13-venv/bin/python3 /opt/odoo/odoo13/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo.conf ├─24503 /bin/bash /var/tmp/sclSWH04z └─24507 /opt/odoo/odoo13-venv/bin/python3 /opt/odoo/odoo13/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo.conf

It show green active running, if everything worked out. If you see no error, you may now enable Odoo to start during the boot:systemctl enable odoo13

If you would like to see the logs, you may either use the journal tools like the following:journalctl -u odoo13

or uncomment the following line to log the debugs in /etc/odoo.conflogfile = /var/log/odoo13/odoo.log

After making any change to /etc/odoo.conf, do not forget the restart the Odoo13 instance using systemctl.

Test the Installation

You may now test the installation using http://your_server_ip:8069. If everything worked, it should come up. If it doesn’t, you may try stopping your ‘firewalld’ to see if firewall is blocking the port or not:

systemctl stop firewalld

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-bash: smartctl: command not found

Error Details

When I try to check the S.M.A.R.T details of my drive, using the following command:

smartctl -a /dev/sda

I get an error:

-bash: smartctl: command not found

What can I do?

Solution

This error is appearing because you do not have the S.M.A.R.T tools installed on your system.

How to Install Smart tools on CentOS 7?

To install smart tools, you can run the following:

yum install smartmontools -y

Once done, you may run the smartctl command again, and it shall work:

[root@172 ~]# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Crucial/Micron BX/MX1/2/3/500, M5/600, 1100 SSDs
Device Model:     Micron_1100_MTFDDAK2T0TBN

How to reset root password in CentOS 7

Resetting admin password in CentOS 7 is different than of CentOS 6, as CentOS 7 utilized Grub 2 and has a different procedure to access Single User Mode. First, boot your system in Single User Mode to reset the root password by following the below tutorial:

Once done, now, you may first chroot the system:

chroot /sysroot

Now, you may reset the password using the following:

passwd root

You should be done. If you are using SELinux, then you need to relabel accordingly:

touch /.autorelabel

Then, exit chroot and reboot the system:

exit && reboot

You should be done now.