Changeset 3572 for pykota/branches/1.26_fixes/README

Timestamp:

07/17/13 22:12:19 (11 years ago)

Author:

jerome

Message:

Removed a remaining reference to psyco

Files:

• pykota/branches/1.26_fixes/README (modified) (21 diffs)

pykota/branches/1.26_fixes/README

@@ -30 +30 @@
 
 ====================================================================
-        
+
 Planned features are described in the TODO file.
 
@@ -37 +37 @@
 
   - The 'hardware' method consists in querying the printer (via SNMP
-    or Netatalk or any other method of your choice) for its internal 
+    or Netatalk or any other method of your choice) for its internal
     pages counter.
     This is done both at the beginning and at the end of a
-    print job. The counters difference is then used to 
+    print job. The counters difference is then used to
     decrease the user's account balance or increase his quota usage.
-    
+
   - The 'software' method consists in delegating the computation of the
     job's size in number of pages to any external command of your choice.
@@ -54 +54 @@
     Of course this means you have to install pkpgcounter if you want to
     use the default PDL parser.
-    
-  - The 'ink' method consists in using pkpgcounter's code to compute  
+
+  - The 'ink' method consists in using pkpgcounter's code to compute
     how much of each page is covered by ink in each color of a particular
     colorspace chosen between CMYK, CMY, RGB, and BW (grayscale).
     These values are then summed up together and multiplied by a set
     of coefficients defined in PyKota's configuration files.
-    
+
 PyKota is known to work with most printers, excepted GDI ones (Windows
 only). At least one of the accounting methods above should work
@@ -73 +73 @@
 
   You can now purchase 8x5x365@NextBusinessDay Technical
-  Support Contracts from us. The yearly fee is computed with  
+  Support Contracts from us. The yearly fee is computed with
   the following formula :
 
   (100.0 * NbPrintServers) + (2.5 * NbPrinters) + (0.04 * NbUsers) EUROS.
-  
+
   This fee includes the VAT, and a free subscription to Official
   PyKota packages.
 
   Please send an email to alet@librelogiciel.com if you're
-  interested in purchasing such a contract.   
+  interested in purchasing such a contract.
 
   Remember that purchasing a support contract for Free Software like PyKota
-  is a great way to show your appreciation for the work already being done 
+  is a great way to show your appreciation for the work already being done
   on this project, and will help to improve this software in the future.
 
@@ -102 +102 @@
   have to compile it into HTML or PDF yourself by using
   the appropriate tools as installed on your system.
-  
+
   PyKota's collaborative documentation is available from :
-  
+
     http://www.pykota.com/wiki/
-    
+
   You may learn more about PyKota, if it fits your own organization,
   its internal working, and some potential performance drawbacks and
   how to avoid them, in a document created by Ryan Suarez at :
-  
+
     http://archive.macosxlabs.org/forum/webcrossing_archive/documentation/Pykota_and_CUPS/Pykota_and_CUPS.html
 
   You may also find the following document interesting :
-  
+
     http://es.tldp.org/Tutoriales/doc-openldap-samba-cups-python/
-    
-  This document, written in Spanish by Sergio Gonzalez Gonzalez,  
+
+  This document, written in Spanish by Sergio Gonzalez Gonzalez,
   describes the integration of PyKota into an OpenLDAP + Samba
-  + CUPS installation. Even for people who can't read spanish 
+  + CUPS installation. Even for people who can't read spanish
   this document is really interesting, and contains lots of
   screenshots.
-  
-  
-Prerequisite : 
+
+
+Prerequisite :
 --------------
-   
+
   See :
-  
+
     http://www.pykota.com/wiki/Dependencies
-    
+
   for an up-to-date list, or see below (maybe not up-to-date) :
-  
+
   You need to have the following tools installed on the CUPS Server :
-  
+
     - CUPS (http://www.cups.org)
     - Python v2.3 or higher (http://www.python.org)
     - eGenix' mxDateTime Python extension (http://www.egenix.com)
     - The pkpgcounter command line tool, version 1.56 or higher. This
-      tool is now mandatory for PyKota to work. 
+      tool is now mandatory for PyKota to work.
       (http://www.pykota.com/software/pkpgcounter)
-    - The pkipplib Python library (http://www.pykota.com/software/pkipplib)  
+    - The pkipplib Python library (http://www.pykota.com/software/pkipplib)
     - The JAXML Python module to be able to dump datas in the XML format.
       (http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/)
-    - The Python-PAM module if you need the pknotify command to be able  
+    - The Python-PAM module if you need the pknotify command to be able
       to check usernames and passwords. (http://www.pangalactic.org/PyPAM)
     - The Python-SNMP module to query printers for their page counter.
-      (http://pysnmp.sourceforge.net) 
+      (http://pysnmp.sourceforge.net)
       IMPORTANT : version 3.4.2 or higher is REQUIRED.
       Versions 2.x won't work. Versions 4.x now work (tested with v4.1.5a).
     - The Python-OSD module to use the graphical print quota reminder.
       (http://repose.cx/pyosd/)
-    - The Python-chardet module to autodetect user's character set when  
+    - The Python-chardet module to autodetect user's character set when
       printing. (http://chardet.feedparser.org)
     - SNMP tools (specifically the snmpget command) if you prefer to
@@ -160 +160 @@
       request your printer's lifetime page counter via AppleTalk.
       (http://netatalk.sourceforge.net)
-    - The ReportLab Python module (http://www.reportlab.org) if you want  
+    - The ReportLab Python module (http://www.reportlab.org) if you want
       to have PyKota generate nice banners for you.
-    - The Python Imaging Library (aka PIL) module 
-      (http://www.pythonware.com/downloads) if you want to have PyKota 
+    - The Python Imaging Library (aka PIL) module
+      (http://www.pythonware.com/downloads) if you want to have PyKota
       generate nice banners for you.
     - PostgreSQL's PygreSQL Python extension and the PostgreSQL client
       libraries if you plan to use PostgreSQL as the database backend.
       (http://www.postgresql.org and http://www.pygreql.org)
- or     
-    - python-ldap Python module and the OpenLDAP client libraries  
+ or
+    - python-ldap Python module and the OpenLDAP client libraries
       if you plan to use an LDAP server as the database backend.
       (http://www.openldap.org and http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net)
- or 
+ or
     - SQLite v3.2.7 and the SQLite libraries if you plan to use SQLite
-      as the database backend (http://www.sqlite.org). You also need the 
+      as the database backend (http://www.sqlite.org). You also need the
       PySQLite module v2.0.5 or higher (http://www.pysqlite.org)
  or
-    - The MySQL-python bindings. 
-      IMPORTANT: If you are using MySQL 4.1, then MySQL-python must be 
+    - The MySQL-python bindings.
+      IMPORTANT: If you are using MySQL 4.1, then MySQL-python must be
       version 1.2 or greater. Version 1.0 does not work correctly with 4.1.
-      
-    
-  On Intel i386 architecture, and for performance reasons, it is
-  strongly suggested that you install the Python accelerator Psyco, 
-  available at :
-  
-      http://psyco.sourceforge.net
-      
-  Under Debian :    
-  
-      $ apt-get install python-psyco
-      
-  Other architectures may be supported as well in the future, check    
-  this on Psyco's website.
-  
-  Installing Psyco is not mandatory, but it will speedup PCL5 parsing
-  by almost 3 times. PostScript and PDF parsing can also benefit,
-  but in an almost unnoticeable manner since this part of the code
-  is already optimal. For PCL5 this is a completely different matter,
-  and if you install Psyco you will never regret it !
-  Same remark applies for PCL6 (aka PCLXL) : the parser is completely
-  different, but the performance gain with Psyco is impressive.
-  
+
+
   You may also benefit from having the following tools installed to
   deal with some printers :
-  
+
     - npadmin
     - netcat
     - ghostscript
-    
+
   You need to have the following tools installed on the database
   server :
-  
+
     - PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org)
-    
-  or  
-  
+
+  or
+
     - OpenLDAP, or any other LDAP server (http://www.openldap.org)
-    
-  or   
-  
+
+  or
+
     - SQLite, v3.2.7 or higher (http://www.sqlite.org).
       Beware : with SQLite the database server and the print
       servers MUST be the very same machine.
-      
-  or     
-  
+
+  or
+
     - MySQL 4.1 or higher. 5.x is recommended.
-    
+
   This list of prerequisite software may change in the future, when
-  PyKota will support more functionnalities you will be given 
+  PyKota will support more functionnalities you will be given
   alternatives.
-  
-  Of course the Print Server and the database server can be the 
-  very same machine if you've got a tiny network, or you can have 
+
+  Of course the Print Server and the database server can be the
+  very same machine if you've got a tiny network, or you can have
   multiple Print Servers all storing their quotas on the same database
   server if you've got a bigger network. (NB : with SQLite, the database
   can't be shared between several print servers)
-  
-Hint :  
+
+Hint :
 ------
 
-  - The Debian GNU/Linux distribution is to our knowledge the 
+  - The Debian GNU/Linux distribution is to our knowledge the
     easiest distribution to install PyKota on, because almost all
     of PyKota dependencies are already included, excepted
@@ -253 +232 @@
     manually.
 
-Then :   
+Then :
 ------
- 
+
 Download the latest PyKota version from the Subversion tree :
 
@@ -263 +242 @@
 
     $ python checkdeps.py
-    
+
     An availability report for all the software needed by PyKota
     will be displayed : you'll have to install the missing
     software if you want PyKota to work correctly.
-    
+
 To install the software, just type :
 
@@ -278 +257 @@
 
     $ pksetup debian
-    
-or :    
+
+or :
 
     $ pksetup ubuntu
-    
+
 and follow the instructions to install PyKota in interactive mode, then
 skip the remaining of the section below.
@@ -291 +270 @@
 
     $ adduser --system --group --home /etc/pykota --gecos PyKota pykota
-    
+
 Put the user your printing system is run as in the pykota system group :
 
     $ adduser lp pykota
-    
+
     NB : on our system, the CUPS printing system runs as system user 'lp'.
     Please adapt this to your own system.
@@ -304 +283 @@
 change the passwords, or, in the case of the LDAP backend, adapt it
 to your own LDAP DIT, and execute the initialization script
-to create an empty PyKota database. Upgrade scripts may be 
+to create an empty PyKota database. Upgrade scripts may be
 provided as well. NB : if you use PostgreSQL, a good way to
 make PyKota work first time is to modify PostgreSQL's pg_hba.conf
@@ -312 +291 @@
 and PostgreSQL's documentation for details on this subject.
 
-Copy the conf/pykota.conf.sample and  conf/pykotadmin.conf.sample 
-sample configuration files to ~pykota/pykota.conf and 
-~pykota/pykotadmin.conf  
+Copy the conf/pykota.conf.sample and  conf/pykotadmin.conf.sample
+sample configuration files to ~pykota/pykota.conf and
+~pykota/pykotadmin.conf
 The installation script usually copies these files into /usr/share/pykota
 
@@ -320 +299 @@
 be searched first in user pykota's home directory, then in /etc/pykota.
 
-You need to adapt these files to your own needs. Especially you may 
-have to create sections named after your own printers, and change 
-the administrator's email address which by default is 
-root@localhost. Read and try to understand these two very well 
-commented files, so that you'll encounter less problems later. 
+You need to adapt these files to your own needs. Especially you may
+have to create sections named after your own printers, and change
+the administrator's email address which by default is
+root@localhost. Read and try to understand these two very well
+commented files, so that you'll encounter less problems later.
 
 The rest of the installation depends on your printing system :
 
   - CUPS Printing System :
-  
+
     Once and for all :
-    
-        Create a symbolic link to the cupspykota backend 
+
+        Create a symbolic link to the cupspykota backend
         in CUPS's backend directory :
-        
+
           $ cd /usr/lib/cups/backend
           $ ln -s /usr/share/pykota/cupspykota cupspykota
-          
-        If you use CUPS v1.2 or higher, please do this as well :  
-        
+
+        If you use CUPS v1.2 or higher, please do this as well :
+
           $ chmod 700 /usr/share/pykota/cupspykota
-          
+
           This allows the cupspykota backend to support other
           backends which must be run as user root, like the
           lpd backend for example.
-          
+
         Restart CUPS so that the new backend can be detected.
-        
+
           $ /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
-          
-          for example under Debian, or any similar command depending 
+
+          for example under Debian, or any similar command depending
           on your operating system of choice.
-          
+
     For new printers :
-    
-        Go to CUPS management interface (http://localhost:631) 
+
+        Go to CUPS management interface (http://localhost:631)
         and choose the appropriate PyKota managed device depending
         on the type of printer you use. For example, if your
         printer is waiting on :
-        
+
             socket://myprinter.example.com:9100
-            
-        Then choose :    
-        
+
+        Then choose :
+
             cupspykota:socket://myprinter.example.com:9100
-            
-        Configure your printer as usual.    
-        
-        Now double check /etc/pykota/pykota.conf 
-        
+
+        Configure your printer as usual.
+
+        Now double check /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
+
         You should manually create a section named after the
         printer you've just added, unless you have set
         all options globally.
-        
-        The new pkturnkey command can help you with correct settings 
+
+        The new pkturnkey command can help you with correct settings
         for your printers. To have pkturnkey give you some hints
         about what to put into pykota.conf for a particular
         print queue, just use its --doconf command line switch :
-        
+
           $ pkturnkey --doconf TheNameOfThePrintQueue
-        
+
         pkturnkey will try to tell you what is the best accounting
         method for each printer and will print some lines you'll
         just have to copy&paste in the appropriate sections in
         /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
-        
+
         For more informations about what pkturnkey can do for you,
         see pkturnkey's manual page or use the --help command
         line switch :
-        
+
           $ pkturnkey --help | less
-        
+
         That's all.
-    
+
     For existing print queues :
-    
+
         You want to route the print queue through PyKota,
         and you can do this in several manners.
-        
+
           $ pkprinters --add --cups TheNameOfThePrintQueue
-          
-        or   
-        
+
+        or
+
           if your printer's DeviceURI is something like :
-          
+
               socket://myprinter.example.com:9100
-              
-          then you can do this :    
-          
+
+          then you can do this :
+
           $ pkprinters --add TheNameOfThePrintQueue
           $ lpadmin -p TheNameOfThePrintQueue \
                     -v cupspykota://socket://myprinter.example.com:9100
-          
-        Finally, you could do it manually by modifying the 
+
+        Finally, you could do it manually by modifying the
         the DeviceURI lines in /etc/cups/printers.conf :
-        You would have to preprend 'cupspykota://' in front 
+        You would have to preprend 'cupspykota://' in front
         of what is already on these lines. For example, replace :
-    
+
             DeviceURI socket://myprinter.example.com:9100
-        
-        with :    
-    
+
+        with :
+
             DeviceURI cupspykota://socket://myprinter.example.com:9100
-            
-        or :    
-        
+
+        or :
+
             DeviceURI cupspykota://socket://myprinter.example.com:9100
-        
+
         Save the file and restart CUPS for the changes to take effect.
-        
+
         Here too, you may find it interesting to use the pkturnkey command as
         described above to help with manual configuration of the file
@@ -435 +414 @@
 
   - LPRng Printing System :
-  
+
     IMPORTANT : This release of PyKota DOES NOT support LPRng.
-    
+
     If you want to use PyKota with LPRng, you have to download
     an earlier release of PyKota, for example v1.22HotFix1.
-        
+
 Now you can begin to populate the PyKota's database with printers,
 users and groups :
-  
-Add printers and users to the quota system and set their quota values : 
+
+Add printers and users to the quota system and set their quota values :
 
 You can either use pkturnkey, or do the same things manually by
@@ -452 +431 @@
 
     $ pkprinters --help
-    
+
     will tell you how to create, manage or delete printers and
     printers groups.
-    
+
     $ pkprinters --add --charge 0.05 hp2100
-    
+
     would add the printer named hp2100 with a price per page
     of 0.05 unit.
@@ -464 +443 @@
 
     $ pkusers --add --limitby balance --balance 10.0 jerome
-    
+
     would create user jerome and give him ten credits to spend
     on any printer.
-    
+
 Finally create print quota entries :
 
     $ edpykota --add --printer hp2100 john paul george ringo
-        
-    This will create print quota entries for The Beatles on    
+
+    This will create print quota entries for The Beatles on
     printer hp2100. The print quota entry holds the number of
     pages printed on a particular printer for a particular
@@ -478 +457 @@
     of balance limits. See pkusers and edpykota's manual
     pages for details.
-    
-Your users now should be able to print but not exceed their 
+
+Your users now should be able to print but not exceed their
 printing quota.
 
@@ -485 +464 @@
 
     $ repykota --printer hp2100
-    
+
 or :
 
     $ repykota
-    
+
     which will print quota usage for all users on all printers,
     along with totals, if you are a PyKota Administator. If you are
     a regular user, only your own quota report will be produced.
-    
-You can also use these commands :    
-
-    $ pkusers --list 
+
+You can also use these commands :
+
+    $ pkusers --list
     $ edpykota --list
-    
+
     $ pkusers --list john paul george ringo
     $ edpykota --list --printer hp2100 john paul george ringo
-    
+
 Quota reports are also available remotely by using the CGI script
-printquota.cgi provided in the cgi-bin/ subdirectory. You can 
+printquota.cgi provided in the cgi-bin/ subdirectory. You can
 also use the CSS stylesheet present in the stylesheets/ subdirectory
-and put it at your web server's DocumentRoot, to benefit from a nicer 
+and put it at your web server's DocumentRoot, to benefit from a nicer
 look, especially quota violations will appear in different colors.
 
@@ -515 +494 @@
 
   http://otrs.librelogiciel.com/otrs/public.pl?ID=2
-           
+
 ============================================================
 
@@ -524 +503 @@
 them available under the GNU General Public License :
 
-  - Kanakorn Horsiritham developped phpPykotaAdmin which is 
+  - Kanakorn Horsiritham developped phpPykotaAdmin which is
     a web based database independant administrative GUI,
     written in PHP.
-  
+
       http://opensource.psu.ac.th/~kanakorn/mambo/
-      
-    He was also kind enough to write an installation guide  
+
+    He was also kind enough to write an installation guide
     in english for CUPS and PyKota with phpPykotaAdmin on Fedora
     Core 3. You'll find this document on the same website.
-    
+
     This great software currently at version 0.3 is a wonderful
-    basis for an administrative GUI since it only depends on 
+    basis for an administrative GUI since it only depends on
     PyKota commands to be present to successfully manage
-    PyKota's database. 
-    
+    PyKota's database.
+
     However this tool is very old now and doesn't work
     with more recent versions of PyKota. It could be
     a good starting point if you planned to develop such
     a web user interface though.
-  
-Additionnal software will be listed here when they will be  
+
+Additionnal software will be listed here when they will be
 ready.
 
@@ -554 +533 @@
   A mailing list is dedicated to Pykota, you can subscribe to it
   or consult its archives at :
-  
+
     http://cgi.librelogiciel.com/mailman/listinfo/pykota
-    
-  The mailing list is the preferred way to obtain support, because  
+
+  The mailing list is the preferred way to obtain support, because
   all members can help and can also benefit from the solutions
-  proposed by other members. 
-  
+  proposed by other members.
+
   Posts by non-members are usually rejected.
-  
+
   The mailing list language is english and only english.
-    
-IRC :    
+
+IRC :
 -----
 
   You can also chat with us :
-  
+
         /server irc.freenode.net
         /join #pykota
-        
-  Preferred language on this channel is english, but french      
+
+  Preferred language on this channel is english, but french
   is also accepted. Try to avoid exposing complex problems
   in french because english speaking people on the channel
   wouldn't benefit from the solutions.
-  
+
   PyKota's main author is known as 'tamere' on IRC.
-    
+
 ============================================================
-    
+
 Please e-mail bugs to the mailing list at : pykota@librelogiciel.com
 or to the main author at : alet@librelogiciel.com (Jerome Alet)