Tryton ERP installation with sao on Ubuntu

Question

OS: Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

I am quite confused on how to properly install the Tryton ERP software on ubuntu. When you navigate to the Tryton website, there is the pip variant:

$ pip install trytond
$ pip install tryton
$ pip install trytond_module_name

AFAIU trytond is the server part, tryton is the (graphical) client. Now, there is a link to the Ubuntu package server on the tryton website. There listed are all(or at least a lot) of the modules. And also the client (tryton-client).

Why is there no trytond package? Should I install trytond with pip and then the packages with apt?

The next thing is the sao webgui... why is this not a module? I managed to install trytond with pip (after quite some hassle with lxml). Then I used the following commands:

erp@trytonMachine:~$ trytond --version
trytond 4.2.0

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/tryton/sao.git
cd sao

sudo npm install -g grunt-cli sudo npm install -g bower
npm install bower install grunt

These commands seemed to be running with no errors. (Don't know how to verify)

below are the relevant parts of /etc/tryton/trytond.conf

[database]
path = /var/lib/tryton

[jsonrpc]
listen = localhost:8000
data = /home/erp/sao/
# full file: http://pastebin.com/z2NtRk5q

After adding above parameters I ran

sudo service tryton-server restart

So far I can not connect with the browser from another PC. Any hints on how to progress? Maybe some command to check if sao is successfully linked to trytond?

Thanks. I really appreciate any answer.

VapoRizer

Answer 1

You can not connect from another host because you configured trytond to listen only on localhost. To listen from any host, you must set to listen on 0.0.0.0:8000 for IPv4 and to [::]:8000 for IPv6.

Answer 2

irc://irc.freenode.net/tryton and http://doc.tryton.org/4.2/trytond/doc/topics/ gave me pretty much the help I needed.

Basic informations

• OS Tryton Server: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial)
• trytond version: 4.2.0
• sao version: develop branch for 4.2.0 (Latest commit 540f121)
• tryton client: none (only sao/webinterface)
• Please do not take this guide as 100% accurate

Installation of trytond

sudo apt install python-pip
#uncomment "deb-src http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted" (or whatever you have there for your main src) from /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get build-dep python3-lxml
sudo apt-get install python3-lxml

pip install trytond

erp@trytonMachine:~$ trytond --version
trytond 4.2.0

now you have trytond installed. lets configure it

Database setup

create and initialize the DB:

sudo apt install sqlite3 #I chose sqlite for testing purposes
sqlite3 tryton_db.sqlite "" #creates an sqlite DB in the current folder you are in 

trytond-admin -c /home/erp/trytond.conf -d /home/erp/tryton_db --all #initializes the DB
#you will be prompted for the DB admin password. Choose one.

configuration of trytond

create a fresh config file

sudo nano /etc/tryton/trytond.conf

add the following lines (change the config with your data):

[database]
uri = sqlite:///home/erp/tryton_db.sqlite
#path: folder path to where your sqlite file is stored
path = /home/erp/
[web]
root = /home/erp/sao
hostname = trytonMachine
listen = 0.0.0.0:8000

The sao webinterface:

#first install nodejs   
sudo apt install curl
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
#then install git
sudo apt install git
#clone the sao repository to your local machine
git clone https://github.com/tryton/sao.git
cd sao #cd into your sao folder
npm install
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
grunt

Note that the "root = /home/erp/sao" in the config has to point to the sao folder

Run the server

erp@trytonMachine:~$ trytond -c /home/erp/trytond.conf   

The server is now running. The terminal is now "locked" with the trytond process until you end it with ctrl+c

The sao webinterface is now available with ip_of_tryton_server:8000 from any browser in your LAN

user: admin
password: the password you specified in the DB initialisation

You can now add modules like this:

pip install trytond_product

You can find a list of modules here:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&show=all&c=551

The modules need to be activated in the tryton webinterface here: Administration -> Modules -> Mark for upgrade

Afterwards you need to run Administration -> Modules -> Perform Pending Activation/Upgrade