How to do it...

To install Odoo from source, you need to follow these steps:

1. Run the following commands to install the main dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install -y git python3.5 postgresql nano virtualenv 
\ xz-utils wget fontconfig libfreetype6 libx11-6 libxext6 libxrender1 \ node-less node-clean-css xfonts-75dpi

1. Download and install wkhtmltopdf:

$ wget -O wkhtmltox.tar.xz \ https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz 
$ tar xvf wkhtmltox.tar.xz
$ sudo mv wkhtmltox/lib/ /usr/local/lib/
$ sudo mv wkhtmltox/bin/ /usr/local/bin/
$ sudo mv wkhtmltox/share/man/man1 /usr/local/share/man/

1. Now, use this to install the build dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install -y gcc python3.5-dev libxml2-dev \
libxslt1-dev libevent-dev libsasl2-dev libssl1.0-dev libldap2-dev \
libpq-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev

1. Configure PostgreSQL:

$ sudo -u postgres createuser --createdb $(whoami)
$ createdb $(whoami)

1. Configure git:

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
$ git config --global user.email youremail@example.com

1. Clone the Odoo code base:

$ mkdir ~/odoo-dev
$ cd ~/odoo-dev
$ git clone -b 11.0 --single-branch\ https://github.com/odoo/odoo.git
$ cd odoo

1. Create an odoo-11.0 virtual environment and activate it:

$ virtualenv -p python3 ~/odoo-11.0
$ source ~/odoo-11.0/bin/activate

1. Install the Python dependencies of Odoo in virtualenv:

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

1. Create and start your first Odoo instances:

$ createdb odoo-test
$ python3 odoo-bin -d odoo-test --addons-path=addons \ 
--db-filter=odoo-test$

1. Point your browser to http://localhost:8069 and authenticate it using the admin account and admin as password.

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