<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>CUCC Expedition Handbook: Programmers manual</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" /> </head> <body> <h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Minimal laptop</h2> <h1>Setting up a minimal Expo laptop</h1> <h2>Overview</h2> <p>If you are new to expo please use the <em>expo laptop</em> first. You don't <em>need</em> to use your own laptop - which takes most of a day to do it properly. <p>To set up your own laptop you need to do this:</p> <ol> <li>Register an SSH key</a> with an expo nerd i.e 'get a login'. (see "Key Configuration" below)</li> <li>Install <a href="#software">git version control software</a> to download ("clone"), view and edit caving data.</li> <li>Clone three <a href="../computing/repos.html">expo repositories</a> <var>loser, drawings</var> and <var>expoweb</var> so you have the files on your machine. (Use the <a href="qstart-git.html">git reminder</a> for how to do this, e.g. <em>git clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com:/home/expo/expoweb</em></li> <li>Install survex, and therion or tunnel for editing cave data. </ol> <p>Once you have got this working, and if it doesn't do what you want or you don't understand how to use it, look at the <a href="yourlaptop.html">full laptop configuration</a> for everything else. And please <b>write some documentation for the next person</b> in your situation. <h3>Cheat lists and quick reminders</h3> <ul> <li>Quick <a href="qstart-git.html">reminders for using git</a> at the command line. <li>Quick <a href="manual.html#quickstart">reminders for using rsync</a> at the command line. </ul> <h2 id="software">Software</h2> <p>If you are just typing up logbook entries then you don't need any other software. If you are working with survey data download this software (short list): <ul> <li><a href="https://git-scm.com/">git</a> - version control system</li> <li><a href="getsurvex.html">Installing surveying software</a> - survex, tunnel, therion - specifically for expo use <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>: 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. </ul> <h2 id="configuration">Configuration</h2> <p>Follow this link to <a href="keyexchange.html">register a key with the expo server</a> to get upload (i.e. read/write) access. Do this first, Without it none of git, scp, ftp or rsync will work. <p>On a Windows machine you will need to configure pageant (the putty authentication agent) to <a href="https://blog.shvetsov.com/2010/03/making-pageant-automatically-load-keys.html">run at startup to load your key</a>. Note that you are loading your <em>private</em> key, the .ppk file, into pageant and that this key never leaves your laptop.</p> <ul> <li><a href="../putty/putty.html">Installing PuTTy</a>.</li> <li><a href="winlaptop.html#hard">A Windows laptop for expo</a> - PuTTy and WSL here.</li> </ul> <p>When using Windows please, please be <a href="http://expo.survex.com/handbook/survey/getin.htm#filenames">excessively careful when naming files and survex names</a> and be <a href="manual.html#quickstart">exceptionally careful when using rsync</a>. <h3>Learning how to use this software</h3> <ul> <li>Using Survex, Tunnel and Therion, see the <a href="http://expo.survex.com/handbook/survey/">Expo Handbook - Surveying section</a>. <li>For more detailed configuration, explanations and help see the <a href="yourlaptop.html#configuration">full laptop</a> instructions </ul> <hr /> </body> </html>