/-Frappe-ERPNext-Version-15--in-Ubuntu-24.04-LTS

Frappe-ERPNext Version-15 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

A complete Guide to Install Frappe/ERPNext version 15 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Refer this for default python 3.11 setup

Pre-requisites

  Python 3.11+                                  (python 3.12 is inbuilt in 24.04 LTS)
  Node.js 18+
  
  Redis 5                                       (caching and real time updates)
  MariaDB 10.3.x / Postgres 9.5.x               (to run database driven apps)
  yarn 1.12+                                    (js dependency manager)
  pip 20+                                       (py dependency manager)
  wkhtmltopdf (version 0.12.5 with patched qt)  (for pdf generation)
  cron                                          (bench's scheduled jobs: automated certificate renewal, scheduled backups)
  NGINX                                         (proxying multitenant sites in production)

Note:

ubuntu 24.04 default python version is python3.12

ubuntu 24.04 default mariadb version is 10.11

STEP 1 Install git

sudo apt-get install git

STEP 2 install python-dev

sudo apt-get install python3-dev

STEP 3 Install setuptools and pip (Python's Package Manager).

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pip

STEP 4 Install virtualenv

sudo apt install python3.12-venv

STEP 5 Install MariaDB

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt install mariadb-server
sudo systemctl status mariadb
sudo mysql_secure_installation


  In order to log into MariaDB to secure it, we'll need the current
  password for the root user. If you've just installed MariaDB, and
  haven't set the root password yet, you should just press enter here.

  Enter current password for root (enter for none): # PRESS ENTER
  OK, successfully used password, moving on...
  
  
  Switch to unix_socket authentication [Y/n] Y
  Enabled successfully!
  Reloading privilege tables..
   ... Success!

  Change the root password? [Y/n] Y
  New password: 
  Re-enter new password: 
  Password updated successfully!
  Reloading privilege tables..
   ... Success!

  Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
   ... Success!

   Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
   ... Success!

   Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
   - Dropping test database...
   ... Success!
   - Removing privileges on test database...
   ... Success!

   Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y
   ... Success!

STEP 6 MySQL database development files

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

STEP 7 Edit the mariadb configuration ( unicode character encoding )

sudo nano /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf

add this to the 50-server.cnf file

[server]
user = mysql
pid-file = /run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket = /run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
basedir = /usr
datadir = /var/lib/mysql
tmpdir = /tmp
lc-messages-dir = /usr/share/mysql
bind-address = 127.0.0.1
query_cache_size = 16M
log_error = /var/log/mysql/error.log

[mysqld]
innodb-file-format=barracuda
innodb-file-per-table=1
innodb-large-prefix=1
character-set-client-handshake = FALSE
character-set-server = utf8mb4
collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci      
 
[mysql]
default-character-set = utf8mb4

Now press (Ctrl-X) to exit

sudo service mysql restart

STEP 8 install Redis

sudo apt-get install redis-server

STEP 9 install Node.js 18.X package

sudo apt install curl 
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash
source ~/.profile
nvm install 18

STEP 10 install Yarn

sudo apt-get install npm

sudo npm install -g yarn

STEP 11 install wkhtmltopdf

sudo apt-get install xvfb libfontconfig wkhtmltopdf

STEP 12 install frappe-bench

sudo -H pip3 install frappe-bench --break-system-packages

bench --version

STEP 13 initilise the frappe bench & install frappe latest version

bench init frappe-bench --frappe-branch version-15

cd frappe-bench/
bench start

STEP 14 create a site in frappe bench

Note

Warning: MariaDB version ['10.11', '7'] is more than 10.8 which is not yet tested with Frappe Framework.

bench new-site dcode.com

bench --site dcode.com add-to-hosts

Open url http://dcode.com:8000 to login

STEP 15 install ERPNext latest version in bench & site

bench get-app erpnext --branch version-15
###OR
bench get-app https://github.com/frappe/erpnext --branch version-15

bench --site dcode.com install-app erpnext

bench start