How To Install OpenERP 6 On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]

“As we tend to host OpenERP on servers that are connected to the
big wide Internet, our objective is to end up with a system that
is:

“A: Accessible only via encrypted (SSL) services from the GTK
client, Web browser, WebDAV and CalDAV

“B: Readily upgradeable and customisable

“One of my friends said to me recently, ‘surely it’s just sudo
apt-get install openerp-server isn’t it?’ Fair enough; this would
actually work. But there are several problems I have with using a
packaged implementation in this instance:

“Out-of-date. The latest packaged version I could see, in either
the Ubuntu or Debian repositories, was 5.0.15. OpenERP is now at
6.0.2 and is a major upgrade from the 5.x series.

“Lack of control. Being a business application, with many
configuration choices, it can be harder to tweak your way when the
packager determined that one particular way was the “true
path”.

“Upgrades and patches. Knowing how, where and why your OpenERP
instance is installed the way it is, means you can decide when and
how to update it and patch it, or add custom modifications.”

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