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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Minimal laptop</h2>
<h1>Setting up a minimal Expo laptop</h1>
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>To set up your own laptop you need to do this:</p>
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<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="../manual.html#repositories">expo repositories</a> so you have the files on your machine.</li>
<li>Install survex, and therion or tunnel for editing cave data.
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<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>
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<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.
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<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):
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<li><a href="https://git-scm.com/">git</a> - version control system</li>
<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.
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<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, mercurial, 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>
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<li><a href="../tortoise/tortoise-win.htm">Installing PuTTy</a>.</li>
<li><a href="winlaptop.html#hard">A Windows laptop for expo</a> - PuTTy and WSL here.</li>
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<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>
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<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
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