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The information provided here applies to
EasyCopy Version 7.3 for
AIX 4.3+,
Compaq Tru64 (Digital UNIX OSF/1) 4.0+,
HP-UX 10.2+,
IRIX 6.5+,
Linux (Intel i386 or Intel IA64), and
Solaris (SPARCstation) 2.6+.
Refer to the topic Windows Installation for information about installation of the Windows version of EasyCopy. |
If you upgrade from EasyCopy/X (EasyCopy older than 6.0.0) or FleXprint we
suggest that you remove the previous version completely before you
start the installation. This is because EasyCopy since version 6.0
introduced a major change in architecture.
Previous directory structures and print queue interfaces
cannot coexist with newer versions.
For installation from CD-ROM you need a CD-ROM drive (locally available or mountable across a network). If you access the drive across a network, you must include its
file system in the exports of the system to which the drive is attached.
The supported printer connections are:
You get an extra advantage if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on
the same system as EasyCopy. You can then open the manual by pressing a
button in EasyCopy's graphical user interface and
thus utilize the manual as an online resource.
Adobe Acrobat Reader is distributed on CD-ROM together with EasyCopy,
and you can choose to install it together with EasyCopy if it is not
installed already on your system.
The same does not happen if you download EasyCopy from our Web site.
If you want to install Adobe Acrobat Reader you can download it
from www.adobe.com.
If you use another browser you can reconfigure this interface.
If a browser interface is not configured you will only get a brief,
text based help system.
You can download Netscape Navigator from
http://home.netscape.com.
In addition you need generous disk space for temporary files.
Temporary disk space requirements for screen capture and print jobs
depend on your display, printer, and selections. A minimum of 100 - 500
Mbytes (depending on your printers and applications) is recommended;
refer to the guidelines below:
Disk space requirement (in MB): W x R x H x R x C / 8,388,608
where
Examples:
Actual disk space requirement may differ from this estimate depending on expansions and reductions due to overhead, encoding, and compression.
Disk space requirement (in MB): W x R x H x R / 349,525
where W, H, and R have the same meaning as above.
Examples:
Prerequisites
The supported hardware and operating system platforms are:
For download of EasyCopy from www.augrin.com
you need access to the Internet.
Disk Space
Disk space requirements are approximately 100 MB for a standard installation.
W = image width (in inches) H = image height (in inches) R = printer resolution (in dots per inch) C = 1 for black-and-white printers 3 for RGB or CMY printers 4 for CMYK printers 24 for dye sublimation printers
Letter size 600 dpi color inkjet
8.5 x 600 x 11 x 600 x 4 / 8,388,608
= 16.1 MB
E-size 300 dpi color inkjet plotter
34 x 300 x 44 x 300 x 4 / 8,388,608
= 64.2 MB
Letter size 600 dpi color inkjet
8.5 x 600 x 11 x 600 / 349,525
= 96.3 MB
E-size 300 dpi color inkjet plotter
34 x 300 x 44 x 300 / 349,525
= 385.2 MB
Before You Install
Before you start the installation of EasyCopy you should consider these topics:
Your pre-installation task with respect to primary key is simple: Don't worry! You need the primary key when you order a password, and a password is all you need to change a demo version into a licensed version. You will not need to reinstall the software later when you get the password.
Verify that the printer is attached to your system by one of the connection methods supported by EasyCopy. Make a note of the path or address by which your system knows the printer.
Use the df command to verify that your system has enough disk space available at the location where you intend to install the software and sufficient temporary disk space in /usr/tmp.
Consult your system administrator if the need arises.
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Use the su command to get root access:
$ su
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Before you can start the installation you must mount the CD-ROM file system by means of a system specific procedure. If you are familiar with any automatic or menu assisted procedure on your system, follow that procedure. On many systems the mount procedure starts automatically when you place the CD-ROM in the drive.
If no other procedure is at your disposal you can use the following basic procedure.
| It requires root access. |
 | Do not use the umount command on a system with an automatic mount procedure. If another CD-ROM occupies the drive you can normally use the eject command to detach it. |
| AIX | mount -v cdrfs -r /dev/cd0 /cdrom |
| HP-UX 10.x | /etc/mount -rF cdfs -o cdcase /dev/dsk/c0t2d0 /cdrom |
| IRIX | mount -rt iso9660 /dev/scsi/sc0d?l0 /CDROM |
| Linux | mount -rt iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom |
| Solaris 2 | mount -F hsfs -r /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /cdrom |
| Tru64 | mount -rt cdfs -o noversion /dev/rz?c /cdrom |
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You can download UNIX versions of EasyCopy as .gz compressed archives.
You need gunzip installed on your system in order to uncompress these files. To see if you have gunzip installed type the command which gunzip in a terminal or console window. If you get a reply like "/usr/local/bin/gunzip" everything is fine. If you get a reply like "no gunzip in /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin ..." you need to install it. If gunzip is not installed on your system you can download and install it from www.gzip.org. |
When you download EasyCopy from www.augrin.com you can only download the software for one platform at a time.
If you want to make a common installation for multiple platforms you should download the installation files to the same directory, for example /usr/tmp.
Before you start the installation you must uncompress and extract the archive(s). The example shown here assumes that you have downloaded EasyCopy for Linux and Solaris to usr/tmp:
$ cd /usr/tmp
$ ls
ec720fp_linux.tar.gz
ec720fp_sun5.tar.gz
$ gunzip ec720fp_*.tar.gz
$ ls
ec720fp_linux.tar
ec720fp_sun5.tar
$ tar xvf ec720fp_linux.tar
$ tar xvf ec720fp_sun5.tar
$
The archives are extracted to a common easycopy subdirectory (/usr/tmp/easycopy in
this example.
Installation Procedure
Go to the directory where the installation files reside (the CD-ROM mount point
or the temporary location where you have unpacked the files you have downloaded),
and start the installation:
$ ./install
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Some systems require that you use capital letters for files on a CD-ROM file system:
$ ./INSTALL |
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It is important that the install script is started on the command line from a terminal or console window.
Do not click on the script's icon in a File Manager window, unless your system supports Common
Desktop Environment.
In CDE the required terminal window is opened automatically when you click the icon, but on other systems you may enter an infinite loop if you start the script in a wrong context. |
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You can supply the root password to switch id to root or continue.
You may need root access to complete the installation and to setup printers.
You will normally be able to complete a single-node installation without root access,
but if you want to make a network installation you will normally need root access.
In most cases you can just accept the default choice ([3])
which will install the EasyCopy products on your system.
Choose option [1] to change product component selection before you install.
The full product suite (EasyCopy and EasyCGM) will be installed by default.
You will need to change the selection if you want EasyCopy/Graphics in stead
of EasyCGM.
Only choose option [2] if you will copy everything to another destination and install at a later
time. This might for example be the case that you want to copy from the CD-ROM file system to
a file server which has no access to a CD-ROM drive.
You may choose to install binaries for several platforms in one common directory
on a network file server. This is much easier (also when it comes to maintenance)
than installing EasyCopy separately on each workstation.
Available platforms are marked by one asterisk *. Two asterisks ** mark the selected platforms.
You select or unselect a platform by entering its number. Enter q when you have selected all desired
platforms.
When you install EasyCopy on a shared network drive there are no "meaningful defaults"
in the sense that it all depends on how you normally organize shared network installations.
Choose a path that fits your conventions. As an example has /mnt/prod/easycopy been
used here.
When you change this directory you will see that the defaults for other paths in this menu are
changed as well to keep the structure consistent.
When you have pourchased a license and received the password you can install it by several methods:
Just start the license dispatcher by means of this command
# ecdaemon start
Accept License Conditions
Before you start installation you must read and accept the
AGI Conditions of Use.
Install Menu
Next, the install script starts the Install menu.
Select Platforms
By default your current platform is selected.
Installation Setup Menu
In this menu you select details of the installation.
These defaults are meaningful for a single-node installation.
AIX /usr/lpp/easycopy Solaris /opt/easycopy All other systems /usr/local/easycopy 
The default is /usr/bin. This is a good choice for a single-node installation, because /usr/bin
is always on your path.
For a network installation you should select a shared location which is already on the users' path,
or can easily be appended. As an example has /mnt/prod/bin been used here.
Command Description Program Man page ecx Graphical User Interface ecx.bin ecx(1) ecview Image Viewer ecview.bin ecview(1) eccapt Screen Capture eccapt.bin eccapt(1) ecconv Image Converter ecconv.bin ecconv(1) ecprint Print Engine ecprint.bin ecprint(1) eclpd BSD output filter eclpd.bin eclpd(1) ectcp Socket output filter ectcp.bin ectcp(1) ecqadm Print queue administration ecqadm.scr ecqadm(1) eclpq Print queue status eclpq.bin eclpq(1) ecdaemon License dispatcher ecdaemon.bin eclic License display eclic.bin Password Maintenance
You can install your password from the Install menu.
You will probably not do this when you install the first time.
If you have made a separate license server installtion you must install the password
both on the license server and on the file or application server from which the users have access to EasyCopy.
This is because you need to make the password available to the license dispatcher
and to create a connection from EasyCopy to the license dispatcher.
(This consideration is not necessary if the license server and the application server use a common file system).
License Server Installation
If the machine you want to use as license server is the same as the
application server on which you have installed the UNIX version of EasyCopy, or if the license server
has permanent access to the shared network file system, you will not need a separate installation of the
license server.
| Root access required. |
Only if your license server has no access to the file system you must perform a separate installation.
You can do that by performing a standard EasyCopy installation as decribed above locally on the license server.
Environment Variables
EasyCopy uses the following environment variables.
The invocation scripts set the required environment variables before a program is executed.
This variable is normally already set in the user's login script.
Setting Environment Variables
Setting an environment variable depends on the type of shell you are running.
$ PRINTER=acme; export PRINTER
$ DISPLAY=ws1:0.0; export DISPLAY
$ setenv PRINTER acme
$ setenv DISPLAY ws1:0.0