Install Odoo 14 on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 has built in Odoo 14 package in its repository, but when you install and run it give this error message:

/usr/bin/odoo
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/odoo", line 5, in <module>
    import odoo
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/__init__.py", line 115, in <module>
    from . import osv
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/osv/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from . import osv
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/osv/osv.py", line 5, in <module>
    from ..models import Model, TransientModel, AbstractModel
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/models.py", line 6372, in <module>
    collections.Set.register(BaseModel)
AttributeError: module 'collections' has no attribute 'Set'

These error happened because collections module on Python 3.10 on Ubuntu 22.04 has some deprecated attributes.

The solution is to install previous version of Python such as Python 3.9 or older version.

Here we are going to install Python 3.9 then running Odoo 14 from Git website.

• Install some packages

  sudo apt -y install software-properties-common
  sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
  sudo apt update
  sudo apt -y upgrade
  sudo apt install -y wget git python3.9 python3.9-distutils build-essential python3.9-dev python3.9-venv xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base fontconfig libxrender1 node-less libjpeg-dev gdebi postgresql build-essential wget libxslt-dev libzip-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev node-less libjpeg-dev gdebi libpq-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libffi-dev 
  

• Create OS user and DB user
  sudo useradd -d /odoo -s /bin/bash odoo
  sudo su - postgres -c "createuser -s odoo"

• Download Odoo 14
  git clone --depth 1 --branch 14.0 https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo /odoo/odoo-server
  

• Create virtual environment for Python 3.9 and install some requirement modules
  python3.9 -m venv /odoo
  /odoo/bin/pip3 install -r /odoo/odoo-server/requirements.txt
  

• Install wkhtmltox
  wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6.1-2/wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-2.jammy_amd64.deb
  sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-2.jammy_amd64.deb
  rm wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-2.jammy_amd64.deb
  

• Create directory custom addons and log
  sudo mkdir -p /odoo/custom/addons
  sudo chown -R odoo:odoo /odoo
  sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo
  sudo chown odoo:odoo /var/log/odoo
  

• Edit first line of Odoo startup script file to use Python 3.9
  # nano /odoo/odoo-server/odoo-bin
  #!/usr/bin/env python3
     change to 
  #!/odoo/bin/python3
  

• Create Odoo configuration file
  # nano /etc/odoo-server.conf
  [options]
  admin_passwd = admin
  logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log
  addons_path=/odoo/odoo-server/addons,/odoo/custom/addons
  

  • Change file owner
    sudo chown odoo:odoo /etc/odoo-server.conf
    

  • Run this just for testing
    /odoo/odoo-server/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo-server.conf

• Create Odoo Init file in order to automatically run Odoo ever reboot
  # nano /etc/init.d/odoo-server
  #!/bin/sh
  ### BEGIN INIT INFO
  # Provides: odoo-server
  # Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
  # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
  # Should-Start: $network
  # Should-Stop: $network
  # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
  # Default-Stop: 0 1 6
  # Short-Description: Enterprise Business Applications
  # Description: ODOO Business Applications
  ### END INIT INFO
  PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
  DAEMON=/odoo/odoo-server/odoo-bin
  NAME=odoo-server
  DESC=odoo-server
  # Specify the user name (Default: odoo).
  USER=odoo
  # Specify an alternate config file (Default: /etc/openerp-server.conf).
  CONFIGFILE="/etc/odoo-server.conf"
  # pidfile
  PIDFILE=/var/run/${NAME}.pid
  # Additional options that are passed to the Daemon.
  DAEMON_OPTS="-c $CONFIGFILE"
  [ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0
  [ -f $CONFIGFILE ] || exit 0
  checkpid() {
  [ -f $PIDFILE ] || return 1
  pid=`cat $PIDFILE`
  [ -d /proc/$pid ] && return 0
  return 1
  }
  case "${1}" in
  start)
  echo -n "Starting ${DESC}: "
  start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid $USER --background --make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
  echo "${NAME}."
  ;;
  stop)
  echo -n "Stopping ${DESC}: "
  start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --oknodo
  echo "${NAME}."
  ;;
  restart|force-reload)
  echo -n "Restarting ${DESC}: "
  start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --oknodo
  sleep 1
  start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid $USER --background --make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
  echo "${NAME}."
  ;;
  *)
  N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
  echo "Usage: $NAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
  exit 1
  ;;
  esac
  exit 0
  

• Run odoo-server service
  sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/odoo-server
  sudo chown root: /etc/init.d/odoo-server
  sudo update-rc.d odoo-server defaults
  sudo service odoo-server start
  

• Check Odoo log file
  tail -f /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log
  

• Use web browser to access Odoo
  http://serveripaddress:8069