Finding community modules

There are many Odoo modules available on the internet. The Odoo apps store at apps.odoo.com is a catalog of modules that can be downloaded and installed on your system. Another important resource are the Odoo Community Association (OCA) maintained modules, also available on GitHub at https://github.com/OCA/. The OCA is a non-profit organization created to coordinate community contributions, promoting quality, software best practices, and open source values.

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/. However, this is not a good idea. Our Odoo installation is a Git version-controlled ...

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