Installing OpenERP 5 from Bazaar

This installation procedure is valid for the development version of OpenERP 5.0.0 (December 2008)
$> mkdir ~/openerp/unstable/5.0 -p $> cd ~/openerp/unstable/5.0 $> bzr clone lp:~openerp/openobject-server/trunk server $> bzr clone lp:~openerp/openobject-client/trunk client $> bzr clone lp:~openerp/openobject-addons/trunk addons $> bzr clone lp:~openerp/openobject-client-web/trunk client-web $> cd server/bin/addons $> ln -s ../../../addons/* .
Starting the server can then be done like this:
cd .. ./tinyerp-server.py –db_port=5432
...or any other database name (--database=...) and port

Comments

I used the information in this post to check out and use openERP but right now there's a better way.

bzr branch lp:openerp
cd openerp
./bzr_set.py -v trunk

(you can replace trunk with another version such as 5)