Chapter 1: Installing the Odoo Development Environment
There are several ways to set up an Odoo development environment. This chapter proposes one of them; you will certainly find a number of other tutorials on the web explaining other approaches. Keep in mind that this chapter is about a development environment that has different requirements from a production environment.
If you are new to Odoo development, you must know about certain aspects of the Odoo ecosystem. The first recipe will give you a brief introduction to the Odoo ecosystem, and then we will move on to the installation of Odoo for development.
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Understanding the Odoo ecosystem
- Easy installation of Odoo from source
- Managing Odoo server databases
- Storing the instance configuration in a file
- Activating Odoo developer tools
- Updating the add-on modules list
