diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/od/odoo/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/od/odoo/package.nix
index fd3768bcd742..8c7477c074ea 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/od/odoo/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/od/odoo/package.nix
@@ -1,29 +1,17 @@
 { lib
 , fetchgit
 , fetchzip
-, python310
+, python312
 , rtlcss
 , wkhtmltopdf
 , nixosTests
-, odoo_version ? "17.0"
-, odoo_release ? "20240610"
 }:
 
 let
-  python = python310.override {
+  odoo_version = "18.0";
+  odoo_release = "20241010";
+  python = python312.override {
     self = python;
-    packageOverrides = final: prev: {
-      # requirements.txt fixes docutils at 0.17; the default 0.21.1 tested throws exceptions
-      docutils-0_17 = prev.docutils.overridePythonAttrs (old: rec {
-        version = "0.17";
-        src = fetchgit {
-          url = "git://repo.or.cz/docutils.git";
-          rev = "docutils-${version}";
-          hash = "sha256-O/9q/Dg1DBIxKdNBOhDV16yy5ez0QANJYMjeovDoWX8=";
-        };
-        buildInputs = with prev; [setuptools];
-      });
-    };
   };
 in python.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
   pname = "odoo";
@@ -34,13 +22,10 @@ in python.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
   src = fetchzip {
     # find latest version on https://nightly.odoo.com/${odoo_version}/nightly/src
     url = "https://nightly.odoo.com/${odoo_version}/nightly/src/odoo_${version}.zip";
-    name = "${pname}-${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-blibGJyaz+MxMazOXhPbGBAJWZoGubirwSnjVYyLBJs="; # odoo
+    name = "odoo-${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-TUfLyB0m8XyEiS493Q/ECgSJutAd1rtWX93f3mwfOK0="; # odoo
   };
 
-  # needs some investigation
-  doCheck = false;
-
   makeWrapperArgs = [
     "--prefix" "PATH" ":" "${lib.makeBinPath [ wkhtmltopdf rtlcss ]}"
   ];
@@ -50,7 +35,8 @@ in python.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     chardet
     cryptography
     decorator
-    docutils-0_17  # sphinx has a docutils requirement >= 18
+    docutils
+    distutils
     ebaysdk
     freezegun
     geoip2
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/od/odoo/update.sh b/pkgs/by-name/od/odoo/update.sh
index e9c50ccb5081..e8348e470c29 100755
--- a/pkgs/by-name/od/odoo/update.sh
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/od/odoo/update.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
-VERSION="17.0" # must be incremented manually
+VERSION="${1:-18.0}" # must be incremented manually
+echo $VERSION
 
 RELEASE="$(
     curl "https://nightly.odoo.com/$VERSION/nightly/src/" |
@@ -21,6 +22,6 @@ fi
 
 cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
 
-sed -ri "s| hash.+ # odoo| hash = \"$(nix-prefetch -q fetchzip --url "https://nightly.odoo.com/${VERSION}/nightly/src/odoo_${latestVersion}.zip")\"; # odoo|g" package.nix
-sed -ri "s|, odoo_version \? .+|, odoo_version ? \"$VERSION\"|" package.nix
-sed -ri "s|, odoo_release \? .+|, odoo_release ? \"$RELEASE\"|" package.nix
+sed -ri "s| hash.+ # odoo| hash = \"$(nix-prefetch -q fetchzip --option extra-experimental-features flakes --url "https://nightly.odoo.com/${VERSION}/nightly/src/odoo_${latestVersion}.zip")\"; # odoo|g" package.nix
+sed -ri "s|odoo_version = .+;|odoo_version = \"$VERSION\"|" package.nix
+sed -ri "s|odoo_release = .+;|odoo_release = \"$RELEASE\"|" package.nix