Get openerp working from source

• Run openerp from source
  • Download source using bazaar
    • Install bazaar
    • Configure bazaar for launchpad repository
    • download(branch) source
  • Get the server running from source
    After getting the sourced using bzr, run openerp-server.py
  • Get the web client running from source
    install python-cherrypy python-formencode This error can be seen at the core (server): [2013-04-11 16:00:31,280][template1] ERROR:db.connection_pool:Connection to the database failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/advaith/openerp/bzr/openerp/server/bin/sql_db.py", line 303, in borrow result = psycopg2.connect(dsn=dsn, connection_factory=PsycoConnection) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 179, in connect connection_factory=connection_factory, async=async) OperationalError: FATAL: role "advaith" does not exist
  • Get GTK Client running from source.
    ./configure make make install /usr/local/bin/openerp-client
  • Install and configure postgresql for openerp
    Follow steps from this link : http://doc.openerp.com/v6.1/install/linux/postgres/index.html The links talks about creating role openerp. But I created role 'advaith' as suggested in error message
  • Once postgresql is installed and configured,you can access create database.

Share files using remote desktop

You can share a folder on the client machine so that it's available for read and write on the server to which you do remote desktop.

use the -r option of rdesktop.

rdesktop 172.16.229.23 -r disk:share=/tmp

On remote machine, you can see an new drive with name 'share on '. You can read/write files from the drive.