Post-install steps for Fedora ============================= You must create one database user and one database owner by the user. This can be done in the following steps and no other configuration is required. 1. login as root and run: su -c "psql template1" postgres you get the postgresql superuser prompt "template1=#" 2. in psql enter: create user tinyerp; it will create the database user create database terp with owner "tinyerp"; it will create the database with tinyerp as the onwer \q exists the psql client 3. start the service again as root: service tinyerp-server start Post-upgrade steps for Fedora ============================= You should be very careful when starting tinyerp-server after an upgrade. Read the official docs from /usr/share/doc/tinyerp-server-%{version}/migrate.