Some instructions to use setup.py for a user-install. This file should/will be moved on a proper documentation place later. - Possibly clean any left-over of the previous build. > rm -rf dist openerp_server.egg-info - Possibly copy the addons in the server if we want them to be packaged together: > rsync -av --delete \ --exclude .bzr/ \ --exclude .bzrignore \ --exclude /__init__.py \ --exclude /base \ --exclude /base_quality_interrogation.py \ openerp/addons - Create the user-local directory where we want the package to be installed: > mkdir -p /home/openerp/openerp-tmp/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ - Use --prefix to specify where the package is installed and include that place in PYTHONPATH: > PYTHONPATH=/home/openerp/openerp-tmp/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ \ python setup.py install --prefix=/home/openerp/openerp-tmp - Run the main script, again specifying the PYTHONPATH: > PYTHONPATH=/home/openerp/openerp-tmp/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ \ /home/openerp/openerp-tmp/bin/openerp-server