Hi,
i want to install Frappe Framework only, and i followed the official installation instruction, but i get error on every step, instructions are outdated and not clear, it should be rewritten.
does any of you have a clear installation instruction?
Thanks.
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Hey there, Meraki,
So - For myself, I don’t have an IT background at all. I feel like I can relate to your frustration.
In my case, doing a walk-through with the course available on Frappe School really helped me out.
https://frappe.school/lms/courses/frappe-framework-course
I would suggest it for you as well - That is if installing locally is okay for you.
Also - could you advise some details about your setup? That would help someone to troubleshoot or give more advice.
Hi @gopikrishnan,
Thank you for reply, i will try that.
Edit: i checked that and i realized i tried it before, but it is on docker, which i dont have experience so i did not like it.
Hi @1coconut,
Thank you for reply, i was trying to install on ubuntu 22.04 on virtual machine.
I followed the official installation instruction on
https://frappeframework.com/docs/user/en/installation#debian-ubuntu
Just follow the steps and try the install v15, you will see.
I will check frappe school for that, thanks.
@meraki
Sorry for the late response, Friend -
Interesting.
I’m currently on Debian 12 “Bookworm”. I was able to get Frappe 15.14.0 Installed successfully, and have only frappe builder as the current site.
I work full-time as Insurance sales and am in University at this moment so I haven’t dedicated much time yet - but rest assured if you walk through the tutorial you will get it.
I will note that I updated a lot of the “back-end” services namely:
@1coconut
Thank you for your reply i am late too, because i am working on different subject as well, i followed official instruction, at first python installation failed so i installed python3 but instruction stated to install python only, not giving any version, so then installed other packages with the version which supports python3 like Node.JS 18.19.0 (like you). at the end everything seems ok but cannot access to UI. i will try today or tomorrow maybe, i will write the result.
i followed official instruction again and failed again;
Below i chose to install V15
instead given code i used sudo apt install git python3-dev python3-pip redis-server as in history (8) (given at the end of the post)
i did not use this because my version is 22.04
secure installation doesn’t work without sudo and there is no mariadb-client-10.3 since latest mariadb is installed (10.6) client must be 10.6 too.
at the beginning we chose to install V15 so we should install Node.JS 18 but you cannot install with given code, so from this url; GitHub - nvm-sh/nvm: Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions we get correct installation url but after installation npm doesnt work, to make it work, you have to run one of them below which suits you best;
bash: source ~/.bashrc
zsh: source ~/.zshrc
ksh: . ~/.profile
if you follow this you will get dependency error, but you have to, so you should use sudo apt-get -f install (48)
bench command doesn’t work you have to add it to path (50-51)
bench init frappe-bench doesn’t work you have to install sudo apt install python3.10-venv (58)
After solving everything i can not access to site because i didnot created an app or site, but when i tried to create an app i had supervisor error i could not fix it so i quit.
THAT’s IT.
Sorry i had to green out some information
History of commands;
2 sudo apt upgrade
3 sudo apt update
4 sudo apt upgrade -y
5 init 6
6 sudo init 6
7 sudo apt install git python3.11-dev python3.11-pip redis-server
8 sudo apt install git python3-dev python3-pip redis-server
9 python3 -V
10 sudo apt install software-properties-common
11 sudo apt-get update
12 sudo apt-get install mariadb-server
13 celar
14 clear
15 mysql_secure_installation
16 clear
17 paswwd root
18 passwd root
19 sudo passwd root
20 clear
21 mysql_secure_installation
22 clear
23 mysql_secure_installation
24 sudo mysql_secure_installation
25 apt-get install mariadb-client-10.6
26 sudo apt-get install mariadb-client-10.6
27 sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf
28 curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash
29 nvm install 18
30 source ~/.bashrc
31 nvm install 18
32 node -v
33 npm install -g yarn
34 npm install -g npm@10.7.0
35 npm fund
36 npm update
37 npm fund
38 npm fund
39 apt-get install xvfb libfontconfig
40 sudo apt-get install xvfb libfontconfig
41 curl -o- https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6.1-2/wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-2.jammy_amd64.deb
42 ls
43 wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6.1-2/wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-2.jammy_amd64.deb
44 sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-2.jammy_amd64.deb
45 sudp apt install -f
46 sudp apt -f instal
47 sudp apt -f install
48 sudo apt-get -f install
49 pip3 install frappe-bench
50 PATH=$PATH:/home/${user}/.local/bin
51 export PATH
52 ls
53 bench --version
54 cd ~
55 bench init frappe-bench
56 sudo bench init frappe-bench
57 python3 -V
58 apt install python3.10-venv
59 sudo apt install python3.10-venv
60 bench init frappe-bench
61 ls
62 cd frappe-bench/
63 bench start
64 bench find .
65 bench new-app library_management
Hi @meraki you can try this easy install script on Ubuntu 20.04 or Ubuntu 22.04. GitHub - flexcomng/erpnext_quick_install: Unattended install script for ERPNext Versions, 13, 14 and 15
It doesn’t require any installation knowledge and only minimal input required and handles everything.
@flexy2ky
thank you for reply, i know your script and i used it many times, thank you for such a great work.
But i want to install Frappe framework only, i don’t want to install ERPNext or any other app, just Frappe framework.
@meraki you can edit the script and remove the flags --install-app erpnext This will install frappe framework only.
@meraki Yes. i have done it multiple times. The flag just tells the script to add ERPNext as part of the site install but if you remove it, ERPNext will not be installed only Frappe. to be specific:
This line:
bench init frappe-bench --version $bench_version --verbose --install-app erpnext --version $bench_version
change to:
bench init frappe-bench --version $bench_version --verbose
and this line
bench new-site $site_name --db-root-password $sqlpasswrd --admin-password $adminpasswrd --install-app erpnext
change to:
bench new-site $site_name --db-root-password $sqlpasswrd --admin-password $adminpasswrd
let me know if it works
some instructions are outdated or very confusing like the one we discussed here.
FYI.
i will.
it worked like a charm.
thank you for this great script.
as a suggestion you may ask user to whether continue to install ERPNext or not, or maybe you may ask at the beginning.
This is a good suggestion. I will look at including this as additional question to give the user the option to install ERPNext as part of the installation process.
@flexy2ky
How do we give you money to ensure you keep that script updated? 
Please, please, 5 years from now still be here. <3