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laptop config & to-do printing update

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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Computers</h2>
<h1>Setting up an Expo laptop - using Microsoft Windows</h1>
<h1>Setting up a Windows expo laptop</h1>
<p>First read the generic instructions for all the software installations you will need:
<br>
<a href="yourlaptop.html">Setting up a machine for Expo</a>
<br>
<a href="basiclaptop.html">Setting up a minimal Expo laptop</a>
</p>
<p>A work in progress.
<p>It used to be quite simple: software equivalents existed for Windows for everything we needed. Since Spring 2018, we unfortunately have to use ssh keys. This has simply added an extra step for most things, but has made one thing (rsync) really quite hard to get working.
<p>What makes this all much more tiresome is that Microsoft are introducing some cool new ways of interacting with Linux systems but these are new and need some effort to get configured correctly. See the end of this page for more details.
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<li><a href="#hard">Things that are really, really hard</a><br />
- using rsync <br />
- large-scale updating of several folders at once on expofiles without overwriting other people's work (which means using rsync)<br />
- well not "hard" exactly, but complicated with lot of steps that are easy to get wrong and with poor feedback as to whether you have done each step correctlyS
- well not "hard" exactly, but complicated with lot of steps that are easy to get wrong and with poor feedback as to whether you have done each step correctly.
<li><a href="#bold">Things for the bold</a><br />
- using WSL2, Linux virtual machines and Docker containers
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<h4>Key management using PuTTy</h4>
<p>Most Windows software that we recommend "just works" if you have set up PuTTy and have done the <a href="keyexchange.html">key-pair setup</a> and are running a local ssh agent (pagent) automatically at boot up on your laptop.
<p>Some software, such as the commercial (but free) GitKraken, requires that you click a checkbox to say that you are "using local SSH agent" rather than specifying ssh private keys explicitly (File->Preferences->Authentication in GitKraken).
<p>Some software (such as FIlezilla) defaults to using the local agent and it "just works".
<p>Some software (such as Filezilla) defaults to using the local agent and it "just works".
<h3 id="problems">Things that cause problems</h3>
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<ul id="links">
<li><a href="../index.htm">Handbook</a>
<li><a href="yourlaptop.html">Your laptop</a>
<li><a href="../../infodx.htm">Main index</a></li>
</ul>
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