okay so spent 3hrs following the step by step guild on how to install erpnext using github instructions.
Follow this guide and it should work - The Hitchhiker's Guide to Installing Frappe on Linux · frappe/frappe Wiki · GitHub
Thanks will try and revert back
Hi ERPNext
Okay i have retried on a fresh Ubuntu , i have managed to get up to the login screen , but i see no user and password details…
What am i doing wrong ?
This what i did :
- Followed link on hitchhikers guide :
Which i did …
- Then I :
- i then started bench within frappe-bench and this is the result…:
Regards’
Salim
Is the mysql/mariadb up?
sudo systemctl status mysql
You could try this…
sudo systemctl stop mysql
sudo mysqlcheck -A --auto-repair
#if successful
sudo systemctl start mysql
There’s a good article here
to install erpnext without any problem you have to do theses steps first as i did when i got the same problem under ubunti 18.04 LTS.
1 - remove completly mysql / mariadb …
2 - remove python completly and it will remove also the install lists
3 - follow theses steps :
Log in as root
su -
Update the system and install necessary packages
apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade
apt-get install wget python-minimal
Download install script :
cd && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frappe/bench/master/playbooks/install.py
Start the installation by command below :
python install.py --production --user frappe
During the installation process, the script will ask you for a MariaDB root password and a Frappe Administrator password which you can use later on to login to the ERPNext dashboard. Make sure to use a strong password.
The installation will take some time and if it is successful, you will see something like this:
Frappe/ERPNext has been successfully installed!
I think I may have mistakenly told you to stop the mysql - that probably won’t work so well 
You can add/specify the user and password with these commands
-u UserNameForYourSetup
-p PassWordForYourSetup
user in this case is probably root and the password is whatever you set up
Thanks Redabox
Will definitely try this out and revert back to you.
Regards
Salim