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ERP5-users FAQ

This FAQ is created to motivate both Nexedi and the ERP5 community to improve documentation. ERP5 is said to be easy to use once you get the hang of it.

Regards Sebastian Ware

This is a compilation of questions found in the erp5-users@erp5.org mailing list. It covers April, 2005 - Jan 3, 2006

If you read this and would like to improve it, please go ahead and edit Wiki provided you try to stick to the writing style.

Note: only post questions with answers. If you have questions, join the erp5-users@erp5.org mailing list http://mail.nexedi.com/mailman/listinfo/erp5-users .

Q: I am a complete newbie, where do I start?

1 Start by browsing through this FAQ.

2 Then read some articles on ERP5.

3 Read the tutorial (there is a link in the FAQ).

4 Download the "live CD" (pointers in the FAQ).

5 Install a Business Template and do some exploring

6 Join the mailing list

Q: Where are ERP5 mailing lists archives?

July, 2006 (Luke Nowak):

You can use gmane interfece to access them:

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.zope.erp5.devel

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.zope.erp5.general

Q: I get lots of errors when trying to run ERP5, what is wrong?

April, 2005 (Yoshinori Okuji): I'd recommend you reading this article:

Q: What is ERP5?

(ERP5.org): ERP5 is a full featured high end Open Source / Libre Software solution published under GPL license and used for mission critial ERP/CRM/MRP/SCM/PDM applications by industrial organisations and government agencies.

June, 2004 (http://pythonology.org/success&story=nexedi): The ERP5 project started in 2002 when Coramy, an apparel industry leader in Europe, decided to migrate its in-house ERP solution to a new open source model. The choice of open source for Coramy ERP was a strategic move to reduce software maintenance costs and to allow Coramy to retain complete control over its custom developments, something that would have been impossible with standard proprietary ERP solutions.

Q: What is the status of ERP5?

January, 2006 (Jean-Paul Smets):

ERP5

  • ERP5 certified accounts were produced last spring
  • refactoring of production modules has been completed last summer
  • refactoring of business templates has been completed last week
  • simplified version of ERP5 is now used in small companies
  • high end version of ERP5 is now implemented in very large companies

Next Step

  • New web site with simplified structure and documentation

Q: What is the status of Z3ERP?

January, 2006 (Jean-Paul Smets):

Z3ERP

  • Roadmap defined
  • ZSQLCatalog was optimised and accelerated by 4 to 10 times

Next step

  • ZSQLCatalog for Zope3

Q: Which version of Zope should I use?

January, 2006 (Jean-Paul Smets): The recommended way is the LiveCD.

Otherwise, it is required to install all the dependencies of ERP5 and recompile Zope with a patch. Everything is provided in our source RPMs (dependencies and patch).

Getting the same result as with the livecd would take a few hours. It is not really difficult but requires some experience.

December, 2005 (Jean-Paul Smets): The global list of dependencies is provided here:

The recommended version number is the version number used in Mandriva Linux (version 10.2, 2005 or 2006).

Also, some packages must be overriden by Nexedi packages:

Finally, you should not use Formulator 1.9 because it is no longer compatible with Localizer (we hope to fix that).

Q: Which Zope-products do I need to install to get ERP5 running?

October, 2005 (Rafael Monnerat): I write a Installation Guide based in my install on slackware and after I revised using Install on Mandriva. A big problem is the Guide are in portuguese, not english. I can write a generic few steps, but I don't know very much about Debian.

Is there a package convert? rpm2deb? you can used that to install the Zope on nexdi....

Install the "dependencies" ( python libraries and zope products) as the same way you install on others zope instances...

Python Libraries

  • PyXML (v. 0.8.4)
  • Numeric
  • PIL

  • ReportLab 1.20

  • ElementTree (1.2.6)

  • Psyco ( 1.3 )

Install Products

  • Formulator (1.9.0)
  • Photo (1.2.3)
  • Localizer (1.1.0)
  • CMF (1.4.8)

  • TranslationService (0.4)

  • BTreeFolder2 (1.0.1)
  • CMFPhoto (1.2.3)
  • ZMailin (1.0.1)
  • CMFMailin ( 1.0.1)

  • CMFReportTool

  • CMFWiki ('retired-20040908' )

Install the ERP5 from CVS, install these Products:

  • Base18
  • CMFActivity
  • CMFCategory
  • CMFTranslation
  • ERP5
  • ERP5Catalog
  • ERP5Compatibility
  • ERP5Form
  • ERP5OOo
  • ERP5SyncML
  • ZMySQLDDA
  • ZSQLCatalog

Copy the files :

  • /usr/lib/zope/python/Products/ERP5/Extensions/InventoryBrain.py /usr/lib/zope/python/Products/ZSQLCatalog/zsqlbrain.py

To:

  • /var/lib/zope/Extensions

{X} ERP5Compatibility was an old product to ease an old migration. Please do not use it now.

include the line on ERP5Compatibility/init.py 

   1 import Products.ERP5.Tool.Category

Remove all files in MySQLDDA/help

I hope this mail help you install. If you have an error during Install post the error here.

August, 2005 (BartBomiej Górny): Installation of CVS version of ERP5 on Mandrake Linux

by Relja Stanisavljevic and Bart³omiej Górny

Most of the required packages you can find on: http://smets.com/static/Mandrake/10.2/SRPMS/

Some of them are located in 10.1 and 10.0 directories.

For other packages either google or use the links given at the end of this document.

Follow these steps to install and run the CVS version of ERP5.

1) Install the following:

  • python (2.3.5 and 2.4.1 are ok)
  • psyco-1.4-src.tar.gz

  • ReportLab 1.10

  • python-reportlab-accel-0.52.20050424-1mdk.src.rpm
  • itools-0.7.4-1mdk.src.rpm
  • Imaging-1.1.5.tar.gz (from effbot.org)
  • MySQL-Max
  • Numeric-24.0b2.tar.gz (Python add-on)
  • PyXML-0.8.4.tar.gz

(probably some more things that we already had...)

2) Get Zope

  • download zope-2.7.2rc1-1nxd.i586.rpm
  • extract zope source and Zope-2.7.2-rc1-aq_dynamic.patch

  • apply patch (patch -p1 < ../Zope-2.7.2-rc1-aq_dynamic.patch)

  • build zope, make zope instance

  • install iHotfix-0.5.2 (download iHotfix-0.5.2-2mdk.src.rpm, extract the source, apply patch, copy init.py and version.txt to INSTANCE_HOME/Products/iHotfix)

3) Install required Zope Products

Get the following files, extract source from each of them, apply patches where any are present, then copy the result to your INSTANCE_HOME/Products directory, stripping version numbers from directory names).

  • BTreeFolder2-1.0.1.tar.gz

  • CMF-1.4.8.tar.gz
  • CMFMailIn-1.0.0-2nxd.src.rpm
  • CMFPhoto-1.2.3-5mdk.src.rpm

  • CMFReportTool-0.1.1.20050422-1mdk.src.rpm

  • Formulator-1.9.0.tgz (apply Formulator-1.8.0-Editable.patch)
  • Localizer-1.1.0-3mdk.src.rpm
  • Photo-1.2.3-5mdk.src.rpm

  • TranslationService-0.4-1mdk.src.rpm

  • ZMailIn-1.0.1-2mdk.src.rpm
  • ZMySQLDA-2.0.9b2-5mdk.src.rpm

4) Tweak setup

Copy:

  • INSTANCE_HOME/Products/ERP5/Extensions/InventoryBrain.py INSTANCE_HOME/Products/ZSQLCatalog/zsqlbrain.py

to

  • INSTANCE_HOME/Extensions

5) Get the following from CVS:

  • CMFActivity
  • CMFCategory
  • CMFTranslation
  • ERP5
  • ERP5Catalog
  • ERP5Form
  • ERP5SyncML
  • ERP5Type
  • ZSQLCatalog
  • erp5_bt5

Place it all in your INSTANCE_HOME/Products and make sure they are readable by the user running zope. (usually zope)

6) INSTANCE_HOME/bin/.runzope

7) Create an erp5 site

Add ERP5 Site from ZMI

It takes a long time, so be patient; if you check processes with 'top' and see nothing going on, don't panic - this is normal. Keep waiting - it will show up eventually.

Links to some of the required packages (found by Relja):

Q: What is the "live CD"?

Read up to date information about the ERP5 Live CD: DownloadLiveCd

Note: Current version of Live CD is RC 8

"This version, even numbered as new "Release Candidate" (1.0rc8), is a big update. The previous release (1.0rc7) was based on a Mandriva 10.1. This new one is based on a Mandriva 2006: this mean more hardware support thanks to the kernel update (2.6.8 to 2.6.12)."

Q: I have downloaded the "live CD" but can't burn it. What am I doing wrong?

February, 2006: The live CD rc8 requires a 700Mb CD.

September, 2005 (Zoong PHAM): > I am trying to burn the image file (fs.img) in a CD but it shows me an > error "isn't a CD image file". I am using Windows and Magic > ISO Maker. I > will appreciate some hints.

After uncompressing the downloaded file, you will see a file with extension .iso.

You need to burn that iso image to a CD using any burning software.

The fs.img is one of the files in the iso image. fs.img is NOT the file that you should burn to a CD.

Q: I am running the "live CD", but have problems with the video card?

August, 2005 (Alexandre Boeglin): What are your video card and monitor ? ====

You can try to force a generic driver by adding "xdrv=vesa" to the boot line.

Q: I am running the "live CD", how do I login?

July, 2006 (Shrenik Bhura):

  • User: zope Passwd: zope

Q: What is the root password for the "live CD" to login to the Linux box in order to do some network setting?

June, 2006 (Jean-Paul Smets):

  • user: root passwd: erp5root

Q: Where is the documentation?

23 January, 2006 (Rafael M. Monnerat): I posted on erp5.org the ERP5 Developer Guide in portuguese. This guide has the basic about ERP5 developement ( Module creation , add new classes, export Business Templates).

Link: http://www.erp5.org/workspaces/project/erp5_brasil/guia_do_desenvolvedo/view

January, 2006 (Jean-Paul Smets): Actually ERP5 is not complex but is still not enough documented. We have now about 200 pages of documentation but we think 2000 pages would be required to teach everything. Since it is impossible to produce at this stage, we will first concentrate on documenting core features of ERP5 and extending the documenting towards more advanced features whenever time or resources permit.

One of our goals in 2006 is to make a few core business templates easy to use and documented.

May, 2005 (Yoshinori Okuji): I'm pleased to announce the first version of the English translation of Kevin's Tutorial. You can find the PDF version and the OpenOffice.org version from this URL:

I acknowledge Chris Purves and Shrenik Bhura for their great contribution to this work. Also, I send kudos to Kevin Deldycke and Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes for their help.

Please feel free to send bug reports about the translation and/or the original document to the mailing list erp5-dev.

April, 2005 (Jean-Paul Smets): I posted a tutotial on ERP5. It is good according to some developers who learnt with it, it has 70 pages but

  • it still has some inconsistencies (although I proof read it 3 times)
  • it is in French (I am really sorry)

If anyone wants to translate it in English, I would be quite grateful.

Q: Is anybody using ERP5 in production?

May, 2005 (Yoshinori Okuji): We may not say much due to trade secret, but, yes, ERP5 is used in several production systems.

- June, 2004 (http://pythonology.org/success&story=nexedi)

ERP5 is in production in the apparel industry and government agencies with multi-gigabyte databases that track millions of warehouse stock movements. ERP5 is written entirely in Python and leverages the Zope Enterprise Objects framework to provide high performance and availability on clusters of inexpensive PCs.

Q: How do I upgrade ERP5 on the LiveCD to the latest version?

See the LiveCD FAQ section of this wiki.

Q: Why MySQL-max? Does it Work with MySQL? Has a special reason?

September, 2005 (Yoshinori Okuji): Because of InnoDB.

Q: Is ERP5Shop working?

September, 2005 (Yoshinori Okuji): Yes, as you see in storever.com. But you need a good version of MMMShop. Currently, ERP5Shop is being redesigned.

Q: In CVS have a erp5_catalog, when I install this template, the Erp5 has problems?

September, 2005 (Yoshinori Okuji): Please don't use erp5_catalog.

Q: Can I use ERP5 with OpenBSD?

July, 2005 (Sebastien Robin): ERP5 may run on OpenBSD, and we don't want it Linux-specific, even if we use only GNU/Linux.

But it may be somewhat difficult to get it running on OpenBSD. May be some python package are missing, you will need to pach zope (our patch is available with the rpm of zope provided by Nexedi) and I'm not sure our patch will works well for OpenBSD.

You will find on this mail list the list of steps in order to get ERP5 running on any Linux system (mail from BartBomiej Górny), you should probably do the same thing.

As always, it is more simple to use the LiveCD if you want to get ERP5 running very quickly.

--- End of FAQ ---

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FaqOfUsers (last edited 2008-10-06 12:49:24 by SebastienRobin)
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