Monthly Archives: December 2017

How to Install Backend Theme on Odoo 11 Community

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Download the theme from the theme store

https://www.odoo.com/apps/themes/11.0/backend_theme_v11/

This will contain 2 files which you need to add into your addon directory. If you installed with Bitnami then it’s in

/apps/odoo/data/addons

You need to copy the 2 files into that directory. The configuration file by default does not include this directly so you need to add it.

/apps/odoo/conf/odoo-server.conf

The first line should say “addons_path.” At the end of that line add a comma (,) and then the full path to your addon directory.

addons_path = /home/ubuntu/odoo-11.0.20171118-2/apps/odoo/lib/odoo-11.0.post20171118-py3.6.egg/odoo/addons, /home/ubuntu/odoo-11.0.20171118-2/apps/odoo/data/addons/

In Odoo go to the settings page and look for “Activate the developer mode” and click that

Then go to “Browse Apps” and remove the “Apps” from the search bar and search for theme. You may need to click “Update Apps List” if it doesn’t show up automatically.

Update: 06-12-2019 Icons Missing from Menu FileNotFoundException web_responsive

When I installed web_responsive I had some of the permissions wrong for the addon directory. Once I fixed the permissions I was unable to get the icons for the menu to show up. The files were not created in the filestore and no quantity of restarts or reinstalls would resolve the issue. Ultimate I stopped the service, added the update all flag to the service, and restarted the service. Update all took a few minutes to complete. Then I removed the update all command and restarted the service

sudo systemctl stop odoo11.service 
/home/odoo11/odoo11-venv/bin/python3 /home/odoo11/odoo/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo11.conf --update all
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start odoo11.service

Error Installing Bitnami Package on AWS t2.Nano – Unable to create symbolic link

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I was installing the Bitnami Odoo 11 module on my AWS t2.nano. It’s a fresh instance with a 1gb swap partition and 500mb of hardware RAM. This should be enough to run most if not all Bitnami packages. However when I was installing the package ontop of Bitnami LAMP I got error messages.

Unable to create symbolic link

TLDR: You probably need to restart the machine and install from the command line.

I tried a variety of things to resolve the error

confirm that you have enough memory

free

confirm that you have sufficient disk space

df

confirm that the user can create symbolic links in the location mentioned by bitnami

link -s bitnami_source bitnami_target

If you are able to do all these things a simple restart fixed the problem for me. You can run the installed from the command line without giving resources to the GUI which also seems to help. I actually found it a little nicer than the GUI interface.

cd /user/home/directory_of_download
./bitnami-installer-packge.run --mode text

Lightweight xfce4 Setup for AWS t2.nano with Ubuntu image and remote tightVNC access

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A good place to start reading and understanding what is needed for a GUI

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems

My configuration is below for a minimum system that I consider to be a useable starting point.

sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
sudo apt install tightvncserver
tightvncserver :1
sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-theme-full tango-icon-theme
sudo apt install gksu
sudo apt install synaptic
sudo apt install chromium-browser
sudo apt install gedit

open gedit and edit the file /usr/share/applications
change Exec= to “Exec=gksudo synaptic”

Total drive size is 2.144gb when run on the AWS Ubuntu image

Create a partition for the swap so applications have access to more RAM

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swap.0 bs=1024 count=1048576
sudo mkswap /mnt/swap.0

Add to fstab to automatically mount the partition

sudo su 
echo "/mnt/swap.0 swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
swapon /mnt/swap.0

Check your work

sudo swapon -s

https://docs.bitnami.com/installer/faq/linux-faq/#how-to-download-and-install-a-bitnami-stack

How to setup lxde tightVNCserver on AWS t2.nano

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This will install the most basic desktop environment without any browser or package managers etc. It’s very limited and in my opinion not worth the extra configuration to get it up and running.

# Make sure Debian is the latest and greatest

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

# Install X, LXDE, VPN programs

sudo apt install xorg lxde-core tightvncserver

# Start VNC to create config file and setup your password

tightvncserver :1

# To stop VNC sever if needed

tightvncserver -kill :1

https://www.vandorp.biz/2012/01/installing-a-lightweight-lxdevnc-desktop-environment-on-your-ubuntudebian-vps/

I did not need to follow these steps and tight VNC Server was working

# Edit config file to start session with LXDE: 
nano ~/.vnc/xstartup 

# Add this at the bottom of the file: 
lxterminal & 
/usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE &