How to install Erpnext on Ubuntu
In this blog, we will learn how to install ERPNext on Ubuntu server.
First of all, we will create a new user and provide him with sudo access, we will use this user for all ERPNext related operations. We create a user “webkul”, you can give it any name accordingly.
sudo adduser webkul usermod -aG sudo webkul
After that, switch to the new user.
su webkul cd /home/webkul
Before installing ERPNext, we need to install other packages required for Erpnext.
Git
sudo apt-get install git
Python
sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3.10-dev python3-setuptools python3-pip python3-distutils
Python virtual environment
sudo apt-get install python3.10-venv
Common software properties
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
MariaDB (database)
sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client
Redis Server
sudo apt-get install redis-server
Other packages
sudo apt-get install xvfb libfontconfig wkhtmltopdf
MySQL database development files
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
Now configure the MariaDB server by running the following command.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
(When you run this command, the server will display the following prompts.)
* Enter current password for root: (Enter your SSH root user password) * Switch to unix_socket authentication (Y/n): Y * Change the root password? (Y/n): Y (It will ask you to set new MySQL root password at this step. This can be different from the SSH root user password.) * Remove anonymous users? (Y/n) Y * Disallow root login remotely? (Y/n): N * Remove test database and access to it? (Y/n): Y * Reload privilege tables now? (Y/n): Y
Now edit the MySQL configuration file as below.
sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf
Add the following content to it.
(mysqld) character-set-client-handshake = FALSE character-set-server = utf8mb4 collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci (mysql) default-character-set = utf8mb4
Now restart the DB server
sudo service mariadb restart
LOOP
sudo apt install curl
Node
curl | bash source ~/.profile nvm install 16.15.0
MNP
sudo apt-get install npm
Thread
sudo npm install -g yarn
Frappe Bench (Bench is a CLI tool for managing Frappe applications)
sudo pip3 install frappe-bench
Initialize the Frappe bench
bench init --frappe-branch version-14 frappe-bench
Switch to the Frappe Bench directory
cd frappe-bench
Create a new site
(A site is required in ERPNext.)
bench new-site demo bench use demo
Now install ERP Next
bench get-app --branch version-14 erpnext bench --site demo install-app erpnext bench start
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