HOWTO: Install pyshaper (like netlimiter for linux)

[dragonfyre13]

Here's the site for pyshaper. This tutorial is going to be a quick and dirty that I will clean up later...

http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/pyshaper/

Take a look, see if it's what you're looking for. If it is, read on.

First, you need the requirements for the package you can get from the repos.

sudo apt-get install python-geoip python-tk tk8.5 python-pmw tcpdump

Now, go install the file. Grab the file from the download link, extract it, and then install it by executing this in the same directory:

sudo make install

Now the tricky part. There's a requirement not mentioned, and that's also by the same author.

http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/ezsqlobject/

First, you need to get it's base library. The reason we're grabbing 0.6 version is because the ezsqlobject library breaks with anything higher (they removed a feature in higher releases called DBMConnection)

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install SQLObject==0.6

This grabs easy_install, like PEAR but for python. In other words, it's a repository for python scripts and libraries specifically.

Now go and get the ezsqlobject library from above, and extract it somewhere. Then, in the directory:

sudo python setup.py install

Use this to start the daemon:

sudo pyshaper start

use this to start the gui

sudo pyshaper

I woudl very much suggest you read the man page, it has a bunch of good information.

man pyshaper

[Inversions]

Hey dragonfyre13,

Just wanted to say thanks for the great tutorial, it was very helpful!

-inversions

[snek]

This tutorial is not working for me under Jaunty.
Specifically the following command doesn't seem to work anymore:
sudo easy_install SQLObject==0.6

It returns an HTML page now, don't think this old version is still being shared by sf.net?

sudo easy_install SQLObject==0.6
Searching for SQLObject==0.6
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/SQLObject/
Reading http://sqlobject.org/
Reading http://sqlobject.org/devel/
Reading http://sqlobject.org
Best match: SQLObject 0.6
Downloading http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sqlobject/SQLObject-0.6.tar.gz?download
error: Unexpected HTML page found at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sqlobject/SQLObject-0.6.tar.gz?download

[burmanabhay88]

thanks for the info. I had been using Wonder Shaper (which doesn't have a GUI) and is practically featureless. Just what I needed....

[snek]

I found an SVN repo which still has 0.6 here:
http://svn.colorstudy.com/SQLObject/branches/0.6/

Will try to see if I can install it manually

EDIT: One step further!

sudo aptitude install subversion
sudo svn co http://svn.colorstudy.com/SQLObject/branches/0.6/
cd 0.6
sudo easy_install .
sudo python setup.py install

But when I try

sudo pyshaper start

I still get an error:

/usr/local/bin/pyshaper:23: DeprecationWarning: The popen2 module is deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.
  import sys, os, commands, re, traceback, signal, time, stat, StringIO, popen2, sha
/usr/local/bin/pyshaper:23: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sys, os, commands, re, traceback, signal, time, stat, StringIO, popen2, sha
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pyshaper", line 35, in <module>
    import ezsqlobject
ImportError: No module named ezsqlobject

EDIT2: Fixed this problem! I forgot to follow the step for ezsqlobject! d0h!

cd ezsqlobject-0.1.1/
sudo python setup.py install
sudo pyshaper start

/usr/local/bin/pyshaper:23: DeprecationWarning: The popen2 module is deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.
  import sys, os, commands, re, traceback, signal, time, stat, StringIO, popen2, sha
/usr/local/bin/pyshaper:23: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sys, os, commands, re, traceback, signal, time, stat, StringIO, popen2, sha
pyshaper detached into background as daemon with pid 27618
pyshaper: version 0.1.3 now running on 30 second cycle...

[funkygibbon]

As of Ubuntu karmic, the above instructions didn't work for me, it failed trying to run pyshaper, with the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pyshaper", line 35, in <module>
    import ezsqlobject
ImportError: No module named ezsqlobject

Solved by editing the pyshaper.py file, replacing

import ezsqlobject

to:

import sqlobject

[Cadeyrn]

Works with no errors here in lucid. Thanks!

[willskills]

Little bit of an old thread - but certainly, this works just fine on 11.04, thanks for the concise and clear instructions.

[mujahied]

Thanks worked perfectly

[love4linux]

works for me as well on ubuntu 11.04..thanks