Odoo 12 on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

1. Login as root
   sudo su

2. Install the following dependency libraries.
   apt install postgresql python3-pip python3-ldap python3-psycopg2 fontconfig libjpeg-turbo8 xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils node-less npm git libsasl2-dev python3-dev libldap2-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev

   Install Less Plugin
   npm install -g less less-plugin-clean-css
   Install pip requirements
   pip3 install chardet decorator docutils ebaysdk feedparser gevent greenlet html2text Jinja2 libsass lxml Mako MarkupSafe mock num2words ofxparse passlib Pillow psutil pydot pyparsing PyPDF2 pyserial python-dateutil pytz pyusb PyYAML qrcode reportlab requests suds-jurko vatnumber vobject Werkzeug XlsxWriter xlwt xlrd
   Install wkhtmltox
   wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.focal_amd64.deb
dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.focal_amd64.deb

    sudo apt -f install
   

   ln -s /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin
ln -s /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin

3. Create odoo user
   adduser --system --home=/opt/odoo --group odoo

4. Create postgre user for odoo
   sudo su postgres createuser --createdb --username postgres --no-createrole --no-superuser odoo
exit

5. Download odoo source
   sudo su - odoo -s /bin/bash
cd /opt/ git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo --depth 1 --branch 12.0 --single-branch
   Create custom addon folder for your custom addons
   mkdir /opt/odoo/custom_addons
exit

6. Copy odoo.conf file add addon paths
   cp /opt/odoo/debian/odoo.conf /etc/odoo.conf
echo "addons_path = /opt/odoo/odoo/addons,/opt/odoo/addons,/opt/odoo/custom_addons" >> /etc/odoo.conf
echo "logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo.log" >> /etc/odoo.conf
chown odoo /etc/odoo.conf

7. Create log folder
   mkdir /var/log/odoo chown odoo /var/log/odoo

8. Create startup script and enable
   vi /etc/systemd/system/odoo.service
   [Unit]
Description=Odoo
Documentation=http://www.odoo.com
[Service]
#Ubuntu/Debian convention:
Type=simple
User=odoo
ExecStart=/opt/odoo/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo.conf
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
   type “:x” to write and exit
   systemctl enable odoo systemctl start odoo systemctl status odoo

9. Navigate to the odoo URL from the browser
   http://:8069/

10. If you face any issues check the log file.
    tail -f /var/log/odoo/odoo.log

Odoo Active Directory Integration

See the LDAP filter section. I have restricted user login only to the Active Directory security group “MyGroup” by adding the memberOf section.