Installing third-party modules
Making new modules available in an Odoo instance so they can be installed is something that newcomers to Odoo frequently find confusing. But it doesn't have to be so, so let's demystify it.
Finding community modules
There are many Odoo modules available on the Internet. The Odoo apps store at apps.odoo.com is a catalogue of modules that can be downloaded and installed on your system. The Odoo Community Association (OCA) coordinates community contributions and maintains quite a few module repositories on GitHub at https://github.com/OCA/ .
To add a module to an Odoo installation, we could just copy it into the addons directory alongside the official modules. In our case, the addons directory is at ~/odoo-dev/odoo/addons/ ...
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