PyKota

PyKota is a Print Quota and Accounting software, written in the Python language, and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License of the Free Software Foundation

PyKota currently supports CUPS Print Servers, although older releases also supported LPRng

PyKota's website is http://www.pykota.com

PyKota is currently distributed in three different ways :

• You can download it freely using subversion (aka svn), by typing the following command :

  svn co svn://svn.librelogiciel.com/pykota/trunk pykota

• You can purchase a Technical Support Contract which include a Free unlimited subscription to OfficialPackages and MegaPacks, the latest paper documentation, and a MegaPack CDROM.
• You can purchase an unlimited entry pass to OfficialPackages and MegaPacks for a 25 Euro fee (minimum). This gives you a login and password to download any new Official version of PyKota and related software as tar+gzip, Debian, Ubuntu or RPM packages.

In any case, before installing this software you may want to give a look at the Dependencies

PyKota is made of :

• a CUPS backend
• a generic Page Description Language parser
• command line tools
• some other commands
• a web interface
• a print quota database : currently PostgreSQL, LDAP, SQLite and MySQL (5.x and up) are supported.
• two ConfigurationFiles

Documentation :

• PyKota's reference documentation is there
• PyKota's offline documentation is included in SGML source form (DocBook DTD) in all releases of PyKota. You can compile it into other formats using the appropriate commands.
• PDF and HTML versions are only included in OfficialPackages.
• There's an online FAQ available as well.
• HowTo lists all PyKota related HOWTOs