Installing Odoo is easier than ever

Update 2024

Odoo now changed their pricing, and it’s no more insanely expensive to run for a small business. Those scripts are also very hard to maintain for updates, so I suggest to just use Odoo hosted. They will take care of updates and backups for less than $200 per year per user, as this is for business and it needs to work all the time. Can you imagine how much is going to cost if one day a botched update destroys 3 years of accounting? If really want to run Odoo by yourself, the best way is to use TrueNAS SCALE, there’s a preset to install Odoo in a container, and you can set automatic data snapshots for backup.

Original post from 2019

Odoo is an ERP with a lot of interesting features but has a big flaw: the installation is very complicated, making it almost mandatory to subscribe to Odoo Enterprise, which for a small business is insanely expensive.

Fortunately, on GitHub there is a script that simplifies the installation, and a lot!

Run install.sh on your Linux server, wait a few minutes and you will be given your login/management data at the end! Fantastic!