There are lots of ways to set up an Odoo development environment. This chapter proposes one of them; you will certainly find a number of other tutorials on the web explaining other approaches. Keep in mind that this chapter is about a development environment that has different requirements from a production environment. This will be covered in Chapter 3, Server Deployment.
If you are new to Odoo development, you must know about certain aspects of the Odoo ecosystem. The next section will give you a brief introduction to those aspects, and then we will move on to the installation of Odoo for development.
