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@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ The <i>expo laptop</i> uses <a href="https://www.debian.org/intro/about">Debian<
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<h3>Software</h3><a href="https://survex.com/screenshots.html"><img src="https://survex.com/img/aven-1.2.37-by-date.png" hspace="20" align="right" width="300"></a>
<p></a>Long-standing Expo policy is to retain absolute control of all software and all data. So we use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software">FOSS software</a> and we store data in text files not in a database. You can use other software on your own machine if it is format-compatible and exports data in the formats we want, but all the recommended software here is open source and please don't install proprietary software on the '<em>expo laptop</em>'.</p>
<p></a>Long-standing Expo policy is to retain absolute control of all software and all data.
So we use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software">FOSS software</a>.
You can use other software on your own machine if it is format-compatible and exports data in the formats we want,
but all the recommended software here is open source (and please don't install proprietary software on the '<em>expo laptop</em>').</p>
<p>The list of software:
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<li><a href="https://www.mercurial-scm.org/">mercurial</a> - distributed version control system (to be deprecated during 2020)
<li><a href="../fzconfig.html">Filezilla</a> - ftp GUI software with a configuration file to get to the expo server
<li><a href="https://survex.com/download.html">Survex</a>, including the Aven visualisation tool.
<li><a href="https://github.com/CaveSurveying/tunnelx">Tunnel</a>: a Java 2.5D cave drawing program surveys based on Survex-compatible data which can also read PocketTopo files. (Generally called 'tunnel' even though the project and executable is actually 'tunnelx'.)
<li><a href="https://github.com/CaveSurveying/tunnelx">Tunnel</a>: 2.5D cave drawing program based on Survex-compatible data which can also read PocketTopo files. (Generally called 'tunnel' even though the project and executable is actually 'tunnelx'.)
<li><a href="https://therion.speleo.sk/">Therion</a> - Therion processes survey data and generates maps or 3D models of caves.
<li><a href="https://bitbucket.org/AndrewA/topparser/src/default/">TopParser</a> - to convert PocketTopo .top files from a DistoX into Therion.
<li><a href="http://wscc.darkgem.com/caveconverter/">Footleg Cave Converter</a> - to convert PocketTopo .top files from a DistoX into survex (Java)
<li><a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/">QGIS</a> - A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System
<li><a href="https://activityworkshop.net/software/gpsprune/development.html">GPSprune</a> - to edit GPS tracks in GPX files. Just download the .jar file.
<li><a href="https://activityworkshop.net/software/gpsprune/development.html">GPSprune</a> - to edit GPS tracks in GPX files (Java).
<li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/">Viking</a> - an alternative to GPSprune. The <a href="https://github.com/viking-gps/viking">code</a> is on github.
<li>python, if you are extending troggle or the scripts in expoweb/noinfo/ - already installed on Linux <img src="https://www.python.org/favicon.ico" width=64 hspace="20" align="right">
<li>python packages you will want to install: [<em>not yet documented</em>]
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<li><a href="https://tortoisegit.org/support/faq/#prerequisites">TortoiseGit</a> - GUI interface to git
<li><a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/">python for windows</a>. We are using python 2.7 not 3.8.
<li><a href="https://winscp.net/eng/download.php">WinScp</a> can be used as an alternative to Filezilla if you like.
<li><a href="https://www.java.com/en/">java</a> - needed for GPSprune. Has to be installed separately on a Windows machine.
<li><a href="https://www.java.com/en/">java</a> - needed for GPSprune and CaveConverter. Has to be installed separately on a Windows machine.
<li><a href="https://notepad-plus-plus.org/">Notepad++</a> or any other syntax-highlighting code editor for HTML and python such as <a href="https://www.aptana.com/">Aptana Studio</a>. Configuring these to syntax-highlight .svx files has yet to be done.
<li><a href="https://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin rsync</a> - not installed as standard on Windows so you need to get Cygwin or <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/878887/rsync-server-using-windows-subsystem-for-linux">use WSL</a>. But getting WSL to work with ssh keys has been <a href="https://heejune.me/2018/08/02/setup-rsync-server-over-ssh-on-windows-server-2012-easy-way/">tricky</a> and pagent-managed ssh keys are apparently not visible to ssh and rsync in WSL. If you find a good solution for Windows please edit this documentation.
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<li><a href="http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html">Xenu Link Sleuth</a> - on Windows
<li><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-find-broken-links-on-your-website-using-wget-on-debian-7">Linkchecking with wget</a> - command line methods on Linux
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<a href="http://wscc.darkgem.com/caveconverter/"><img src="CaveConverterWorkflow.png" width=600 hspace="20"></a>
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