OpenBravo 2.50MP1 Ubuntu Jaunty Installation

After the Environment Installation steps, next steps is installing the OpenBravoERP.
Download the tar ball OpenBravoERP2.50MP1 .

Once you have obtained the source code follow these steps to install it.

Editing the Configuration files

1. Move to the OpenbravoERP-2.50MP1 in a command line terminal and run
   #ant setup.
2. Move to the OpenbravoERP-2.50MP1/config directory.
3. Access the graphical configuration wizard:
   make executable and run setup-properties-linux.bin
   (chmod +x setup-properties-linux.bin)
4. These configuration wizard can also run in text mode without a graphical system. It will detect the correct display mode for your system.
5. The files setup-properties-linux.bin are downloaded on executing the ant setup. Make sure Apache Ant installed (please read previous blog on Ubuntu Jaunty Environment Installation.
6. Configure the Openbravo.properties and log4j.lcf files using the configuration wizard.

Compilation

Before starting with compilation, check that Openbravo.properties and log4j.lcf files (in the config directory) have been properly configured. If not, edit them manually.

In the command line type:

#ant install.source

The ant install.source command creates the database from *.xml files and installs Openbravo ERP.

Relax and enjoy this might takes 40 minutes. This can vary to 1 hour 20 minutes. Again make sure the previous Environment Installation are done allready. Please check at the previous article in this blog.

OpenBravo Ubuntu Jaunty Environment (4) – ant

1. Install the package:

   sudo apt-get install ant ant-optional

2. Set the ANT_HOME variable:

   echo 'ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant"' | sudo tee -a /etc/environment

3. Set the ANT_OPTS variable:

   echo 'ANT_OPTS="-Xmx1024M"' | sudo tee -a /etc/environment

   On my PC and Laptop with 1 GB RAM OpenBravo compilation without this options cause Java Heap Out Of Memory.

4. Make the ANT_HOME variable available in your current terminal run:

   source /etc/environment

5. To make the ANT_HOME variable available system wide, restart the user session.

OpenBravo Ubuntu Jaunty Environment (3) – Tomcat6

Next step OpenBravo ERP Ubuntu Jaunty Environmnet are Tomcat6.

1. Install the package:

   sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin

2. Check that Tomcat is running by opening http://localhost:8080 in a web browser. Alternatively use the following nmap command to check that port 8080 is open:

    nmap localhost -p 8080

3. Set the CATALINA_HOME, CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_OPTS variables:

   echo 'CATALINA_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat6"' | sudo tee -a /etc/environment
   echo 'CATALINA_BASE="/var/lib/tomcat6"' | sudo tee -a /etc/environment
   echo 'CATALINA_OPTS="-server -Xms384M -Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M"' | sudo tee -a /etc/environment

4. To make this variable available in your current terminal run:

   source /etc/environment

5. To make these variables available system wide, restart the user session.
6. Using your favourite editor modify the /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml

   <tomcat-users>
   <role name="admin">
   <role name="manager">
   <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="admin,manager">
   </tomcat-users>

7. Tomcat Security set to NO, edit the file /etc/default/tomcat6, add this line :

   TOMCAT6_SECURITY=NO

8. Restart Tomcat :

   #sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart

9. Test the username ‘admin’ with password ‘admin’ define at the tomcat-users.xml using browser and open the http://localhost/manager/html. On successful user authentication, the Tomcat Manager will be showed.

OpenBravo Ubuntu Jaunty Environment (2) – Sun Java JDK

You must add unstable/non-free apt repositories to install sun-java-jdk6. Ubuntu/Kubuntu users may also need to add the Multiverse repository to install sun-java-jdk6. The Multiverse repository is enabled by default in version Ubuntu 7.10 onwards. Refer to: https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/programming.html.

1. Install the package:

    sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

2. Set the Sun Java JDK as the default JDK:

   sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

3. Create the JAVA_HOME variable:

   echo 'JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun"' | sudo tee -a /etc/environment

4. To make this variable available in your current terminal run:

   source /etc/environment

5. To make these variables available system wide, restart the user session.

OpenBravo Ubuntu Jaunty Environtment (1) – PostgreSQL

The Database we will use are the PostgreSQL.

1. Install the package using:

   sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.3 postgresql-contrib
   
   Configuring postgresql.conf to use port 5432...
    * Starting PostgreSQL 8.3 database server                               [ OK ]

2. Install the package using:

   sudo su - postgres -c psql
   alter role postgres with password 'new_password';
   \q

3. pgadmin3 are my favourite tool for postgresql GUI administration.

   #sudo apt-get install pgadmin3

OpenBravo 2.50MP1 with POS Synchronization WebService

The most important update on the OpenBravo 2.50MP1 that we are waiting for are the POS WebService module.

The OpenBravo 2.50MP1 have the POS Synchronization WebService module options, so we do not need to download it separately. Prior to OpenBravo 2.50MP1 installing the downloadable POS Synchronization WebService module are frustating (for me).

But with OpenBravo 2.50MP1 the Installation of the POS Synchronization WebService are running smoothly.

OpenBravo on Notebook/Laptop

We will install OpenBravo on 1GB RAM – Centrino 1.4 Notebook with Ubuntu Jaunty Operating System Since OpenBravo will compile their source, 1 GB RAM is the minimum RAM.

OpenBravo 2.5

Compiere are the first ERP which exited me so much. But OpenBravo are the best choice for us.

I need to implement are ERP with Disconnected Outlet, the best option are OpenBravo.

Adempiere with Posterita is the best candidate with their latest release on Disconnected POS. Unfortunately the feature Disconnected POS are not Open Source; Posterita offer it as their paid service.

The scenario with OpenBravo will be installing OpenBravo server on our office, and on the Outlet running the OpenBravoPOS. On some period outlet will synchronize the order to the OpenBravo Server.

Why ERP ?

There are many open source Integrated Accounting, but I choose to implement the ERP. Why ? Our need are including the MultiWarehouse and MultiUser; which I think currently only possible on ERP System.

FreeNAS.org

I have Cyrix 800 MHz with 256 MB + 128 MB SDRam. With 150GB HDD. Since I work with several computers, NAS (Network Attached Storage) is the best options rather than using the USB IDE External Case.

FreeNAS.org so is quite interesting.

Download the FreeNAS ISO 0.6.92 or 0.6.91 from www.freenas.org
Burn it on the CD with Ubuntu – Brasero, give warning after closing session. ( I forgot exactly what it is).
Boot from CD, install embedded, and voila.

The NAS are ready to use.

Since my 150GB HDD are ntfs, I got unresolved problem; so move files to another computer, and put back the HDD on the FreeNAS. Format with UFS (File System).

There are some way to access the FreeNas from working computers. Some of it are Samba (Windows Share), NFS (Unix Network File System) SSH and FTP.
NFS is preferable on Ubuntu workstation accessing the FreeNAS, which NFS give the ability to use the symlink.

Great Job FreeNas.