Introduction

Although Prometeo-ERP System was a phase-out project for any further development, its follow-up project was Django-ERP. However, Django-ERP is still under development, Its function is not ready, and most features are not ready for public use at this moment. Then, I step back to continue to test Prometeo-ERP System. Prometeo-ERP has already provide many useful features, its public release free version had the following features:

• Authentication & row-level permission system
• Notification system
• Custom widgets & dashboards
• Taxonomy system
• File browsing
• Event calendar
• User tasks & timesheets
• CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
• Products management
• Stock management
• Human resources management
• Sales management
• Project management
• Knowledge management
• DMS (Document Management System)

I installed the Prometeo-ERP system to my Raspberry Pi machine, i.e. free OS, free program tools, free application tools, … Great. It is still worth to study it, and I will show the installation installation in the following

Installation Steps:

1. Checkout sources from the GIT repository:

https://code.google.com/archive/p/prometeo-erp/

2. Follow the instructions in the README file as reference.

2.1 PREREQUISITES

Make sure you have the following prerequisites installed:

* python >= 2.6 (or 2.7 the public one)

$ pip install python==2.7

* pytz >= 2011h (required)
$ pip install pytz==2011h

* python-markdown >= 2.0 (required)
$ pip install markdown

* xhtml2pdf >= 0.0.3 (required)
$ pip install xhtml2pdf==0.0.3

* icalendar >= 2.2 (required)
$ pip install icalendar==2.2

* django >= 1.3.1 (required)
$ pip install django==1.3.1

* south >= 0.7.3 (optional)
$ pip install south

2.2 INSTALLATION
1. Rename the download folder to “prometeo” (It is necessary).

2. cp settings/base.py.tmpl settings/base.py, and edit several statement as below:

$ vi settings/base.py
….

ADMINS = (
# (‘Goldman’, ‘goldman.au168@gmail.com’),
)

MANAGERS = ADMINS

DATABASES = {
default’: {
‘ENGINE’: ‘django.db.backends.sqlite3’, # Add ‘postgresql_psycopg2’, ‘postgresql’, ‘mysql’, ‘sqlite3’ or ‘oracle’.
‘NAME’: ‘erp.db’, # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
‘USER’: ”, # Not used with sqlite3.
‘PASSWORD’: ”, # Not used with sqlite3.
‘HOST’: ”, # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
‘PORT’: ”, # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
}
}

…

LANGUAGE_CODE = ‘en-us’

…

# List of installed applications.
INSTALLED_APPS = (
‘django.contrib.auth’,
‘django.contrib.contenttypes’,
‘django.contrib.sessions’,
‘django.contrib.sites’,
‘django.contrib.messages’,
‘django.contrib.admin’,
‘django.contrib.admindocs’,
‘django.contrib.comments’,
‘django.contrib.markup’,
‘django.contrib.redirects’,
‘django.contrib.staticfiles’,

#’south’,

‘prometeo.core’,
‘prometeo.core.filebrowser’,
‘prometeo.core.widgets’,
‘prometeo.core.menus’,
‘prometeo.core.taxonomy’,
‘prometeo.core.auth’,
‘prometeo.core.registration’,
‘prometeo.core.notifications’,
‘prometeo.core.calendar’,

‘prometeo.todo’,
‘prometeo.addressing’,
‘prometeo.partners’,
‘prometeo.documents’,
‘prometeo.products’,
‘prometeo.stock’,
‘prometeo.hr’,
‘prometeo.sales’,
‘prometeo.projects’,
‘prometeo.knowledge’,
)
…

3. It’s time to create the DB schema

$ python manage.py syncdb

4. Start the server:

$ python manage.py runserver

5. Test the application via link http://localhost:8000 as screen dump below: