Import of excel in odoo on Ubuntu 14.04 - not working
Question: When I tried to import an excel file in odoo from Windows it worked perfectly.
But when tried this from Ubuntu machine it didn't work. It showed me this
error

**"import preview failed due to: Unable to load "xlsx" file requires Python
module "xlrd >= 0.8"**.

Here's the screen shot

[![Here's the screen
shot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Tnm7L.png)](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Tnm7L.png)


Answer: The error is saying that you need a python library "xlrd" in order to load
this xlsx file. So make sure that you have installed
[this](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.9.2) python library in your openerp
ubuntu machine.

There's another way mentioned in odoo forum how you can installed it. Here it
is

First you have to download the package from:

[pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.9.2](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.9.2)

Find the folder "xlrd" inside the download, copy it to "OpenERP\Server\"

Restart your server.

