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OpenERP v7 - Critical installation

Asked by Sylvain Plante

Hello,

I have submitted a bug report for this issue on november 21th and it does not seem to have been review or anything. I would like to help improve the product on the windows platform but I need at very least, to be able to install it.

I would like to know if some people have better luck at installing this on a windows server 2k3?
I have downloaded OpenERP v7 Trunk 6.2dev-20121116-000101.

I wanted to try the Ubuntu version but Ubuntu 12.04.1 fail to install in XenServer VM.

So any hint to solve the installation problem in windows? I have already upload the content of the configuration file and the log file containing error message. Reference Bug #1081829

Any answer would be greatly appreciate.

Regards

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Nhomar - Vauxoo (nhomar) said : 		#1

Sorry my friend.

Try to solve Windows problems is OpenERP is a shot in the feet for several reasons, i really recommend you use some Virtual Box or VM machine with Ubuntu or derivated and use it in Web.

Reason are a lot, but in this case IMHO if you pretend give services or even mantain a serious implementation you must use Linux.

Good Luck and I really hope you understand the point.

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Sylvain Plante (sylvain-plante) said : 		#2

Hi mister Hernandez,

I have been in the consulting business for several year but I am out of it now. I want to use OpenERP for my own business.
I'm not as versed in Linux as I am in Windows. But it seem that it will be easier to learn Linux than Python and the whole programing environment.

I am still amaze that the product does not even install correctly.

Do you have a suggestion for a Linux flavor that OpenERP will run onto without too much trouble? With XenServer I have the choice between :

CentOS v6, Debian 6.0, Oracle Linux 6 or Suse Linux 11. I need a graphical interface if I want to get somewhere without pulling what left of hair on my head!

Any insight would be appreciate.

Regards

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Aamir Riaz (riaz-aamir) said : 		#3

Hi,

My suggestion is to use Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, its a Debian based linux distribution and OpenERP is also available on its repository.

Regards

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Nhomar - Vauxoo (nhomar) said : 		#4

I use Ubuntu, there are a lot of how tos on line to know how install from source, and in nightly.openerp.com you will have the last compiled package.

REgards.

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Sylvain Plante (sylvain-plante) said : 		#5

Thank you guys,

Unfortunetly, XenServer 6.1 is still not fully compatible Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. It crash during installation of base module. The more I work with XenServer, the more I find it temperamental. Problems are just pilling up for me. :-(

Is there any older version of Ubuntu I can use without any problem with OpenERP?

I am thinking of trying Ubuntu 11.10 server.

Regards

PS I can not get over the fact that it does not even install properly on a fresh install Windows Server 2003 with SP2. Do they try their builds sometime? Maybe it is me but please tell me where to start.

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Aamir Riaz (riaz-aamir) said : 		#6

You can use Oracle VirtualBox v4.2.4, it is fully compatible with Ubuntu 12.04

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Sylvain Plante (sylvain-plante) said : 		#7

Thank you Aamir.

I am using XenServer 6.1 as a Bare Metal Hypervisor. I am trying to install a flavor of Linux in a guest to run OpenERP.
I finally succeeded in installing Ubuntu 12.10 but I am having a hard time getting a graphical environment to work.

Would be much simpler if the Windows version would install or if someone from OpenERP, just give me a hint on how to achieve it.

I might have to reconsider my choice of OpenERP.

As to change the hypervisor, for now, it is not possible because I am running 6 others VM on it. It is too much work. VirtualBox is not a Bare Metal hypervisor, so I still need to install some sort of Linux system to host it.

Thank for the suggestion anyway.

Regards

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Best Alexandre Fayolle - camptocamp (alexandre-fayolle-c2c) said : 		#8

See the comment I just added on https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-server/+bug/1081829 : I think you need to set the USERNAME environment variable.

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Sylvain Plante (sylvain-plante) said : 		#9

Thanks Alexandre Fayolle @ camptocamp, that solved my question.