How to do it...

To create a work environment for your instance, you need to follow these steps:

1. Change to the directory where Odoo is:

$ cd ~/odoo-dev

1. Choose a name for the environment and create a directory for it:

$ mkdir my-odoo

1. Change to that directory and start an Odoo server instance for that environment:

$ cd my-odoo/
$ ../odoo/odoo-bin start