Create dev environment¶

Clone only the wanted branch (place everything in an empty folder

BRANCH=17.0
git clone --depth=1 --branch ${BRANCH} --single-branch https://github.com/odoo/odoo

Create virtualenv and install dependancies

python3 -m venv venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r odoo/requirements.txt

To install OCA packages, download the xz file corresponding to your odoo version here
https://projects.iabsis.com/projects/odoo-oca/files
Extract into your project root folder and name it "oca", it should containing all oca addons.

Now copy odoo.conf config file into your root folder

cp odoo/odoo.conf odoo.conf