Openbravo
Introduction
Openbravo ERP has been specifically designed to help businesses improve their performance. Its functional coverage includes all areas of an integrated management system. Additionally, this same application seamlessly integrates the rest of the areas, starting with a management scope directly helping clients with its CRM (Customer Relationship Management), BI (Business Intelligence), and POS (Point of Sale).
Installation
Before you can begin with Openbravo setup, you must satisfy all pre-requisites. They are:
To install Ant, download the .tar.gz version from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi to a temp folder. We use for our example 1.7.1
Unpack
tar xzvf apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.gz
Copy to the destination folder
cp -rf apache-ant-1.7.1 /usr/local/ant
There is not need to add now ant to the path for Openbravo installation. If you want to do, read the Ant documentation.
Download the last Openbravo release (currently 2.40). The easy way to install is to download the binary package:
wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/openbravo/OpenbravoERP_2.40-linux-installer.bin
Make executable
chmod 777 OpenbravoERP_2.40-linux-installer.bin
Start installation
./OpenbravoERP_2.40-linux-installer.bin
Use the default choices. When you prompted for Ant path, type
/usr/local/ant/bin/ant
When prompted for Tomcat path, type
/opt/tomcat
When prompted, choose a password for tad user.
Remember, leave all as default. Only modify the Date Format and Time Format.
Now wait at least 20 minutes to finish the installation!
Test new installation
Access at http://server:8080/openbravo
User: Openbravo
Pass: openbravo
