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Installing and Using PPR
Backing Up PPR's Data
Removing PPR
Replacing a Printer
Basic Queue Modifications
Changes for Samba
Sundry Notices
Copyright and Disclaimer
Trademark Acknowledgements
Other Acknowledgements
Abstract
This document is intended to help you to get PPR up and running as quicly as possible. It does not attempt to
describe all of PPR's features or theory of operation. More information can be found in PPR, a Print Spooler
for PostScript, the PPR Reference Manual, and the PPR Hackers Guide.
Installation
Obtaining the PPR Source Code
The PPR source code may be obtained by anonymous FTP from ftp://ppr−dist.trincoll.edu/pub/ppr/. If you
prefer to use HTTP, the URL is http://ppr−dist.trincoll.edu/pub/ppr/. The file size is about 4 megabytes.
Unpacking, Compiling, and Installing PPR
The PPR source code comes as a tar archive compressed with gzip. To unpack it use this command:
# gunzip −c ppr−X.XX.tar.gz | tar xvf −
Where X.XX is the PPR version number. This command will uncompress and unpack the source code and
deposit it in a directory called ppr−1.50 which it will create in the current directory.
Compiling and installing PPR consists of 4 basic steps:
1. Running the Configure script
2. Running make
3. Running make install
These steps are described in detail in the file INSTALL.txt which may be found in the top level source
code directory. There you will find list the of packages which it is required or recomended that you install
before building and runing PPR. That file also has and has notes about how PPR gets along with various
operating systems.
Setting a Default Alert Destination
When PPR detects that something is wrong with a printer, it can inform an operator by e−mail. The e−mail
address of the operator to be informed is specified for each individual printer. Also specified is how long a
problem must persist before the operator should be alerted. There are default settings which are copied into
the configuration of each newly created printer. As soon as you have installed the spooler you should set the
default alert settings which will be applied to new printers. You do it with a command like this one:
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