[Expo-tech] Expo Laptop - roll your own

Thu Dec 5 22:57:47 GMT 2019

New handbook page describes what software you need to install on your own laptop.

Wookey has a few changes he wants to do (see below) and I have fixed some of the mistakes he spotted.

It is http://expo.survex.com/handbook/computing/yourlaptop.html

There’s a link to it on http://expo.survex.com/handbook/index.htm

and also several cross-references from other pages.

Any other suggestions for useful software? 
Anyone want to have a go at creating a provisioning script to install it all at once?

A full VM could be pre-supplied with a registered ssh key (?) but that would be cheating..

As we get more people configuring their own laptops we will need to keep an eye on our key management.

We are getting quite a collection of keys installed on the server – listed in in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

using

tr ' ' '\n' <authorized_keys | grep @ >list-of-key-owners

wookey at kh      (wookey laptop)

radost.waszkiewicz at gmail.com

philip at Barbie   (Sargent)

sam at sam-lappy  (Wenham)

expo at friedig   previous (Cambridge) expo server

expo at debian

philip at rsa-key-20190625   Phil Sargent

sdw37 at sdw37.csi.cam.ac.uk  sam wenham

radost at Radost-Ubuntu

expo at aziraphale

pjf33 at Pauls-MBP.potatohut   Paul Fox

becka at laptop               Becka Lawson

julian at goatchurch.org.uk   Julian Todd

michael at michael-eeepc      Michael Sargent

tom at Fearnley                Tom Crossley

rsa-key-20190802-philip at chibcha     Phil Sargent

rsa-key-terminus-philip at android     Phil Sargent

<anonymous, which is philip on his android phone>

rsa-key-20190819   (Luke Stangroom)

rsa-key-20190824   (Nat Dalton)

wookey at cheddar (Wookey @wookware.org)

mark at macbook-3.local       Mark Shinwell

thomas holder

I must clean out the key from my laptop ‘chibcha’ which died.

Philip

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Sargent (Gmail) [mailto:philip.sargent at gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 December 2019 03:17
To: 'Wookey'
Cc: 'Michael Sargent'
Subject: RE: Setting up a new Expo laptop

Yes you're right about TortoiseGit. It belongs in the Windows-only section. 

Windows doesn't do the java dependency automatically, so java also should move.

I remember now, back in July I was looking at GitKraken (not FOSS) for my Xubuntu laptop.

I remember than none of the GUIs I found in July  which were FOSS seemed to do the job

https://git-scm.com/download/gui/linux 

perhaps I should look again.

Thanks for the kind words. I think Mike Butcher was wanting this laptop setup thing?

Philip

-----Original Message-----

From: Wookey [mailto:wookey at wookware.org] 

Sent: 05 December 2019 03:04

To: Philip Sargent (Gmail)

Cc: 'Michael Sargent'

Subject: Re: Setting up a new Expo laptop

On 2019-12-05 02:29 -0000, Philip Sargent (Gmail) wrote:

> OK, tell me the worst, what obvious software have I forgotten?

> 

> http://expo.survex.com/handbook/computing/yourlaptop.html

Looks reasonably complete. 

distoX users will want topparser (not yet packaged - well it is but it's not in debian yet due to python2/python3 issues) rsync (or something else to suck files out of expofiles bucket).

Maybe git-annex if we move to that soon.

Why bother listing dependencies like java? Installing GPSprune will install java if it's not there already (and so will Tunnel). Similarly python will already be on any sane linux machine. Worth listing for windows people (ah, you already have).

Also distinguish between windows/linux software (tortoiseHG/git only for window people SFAIK - don't seem to be in Debian) linux people use command lines :-) or rabbitvcs (does hg and git in one tool) I guess.

I'll adjust some of your text which is a little didactic for my taste in a couple of places, but overall that looks excellent. Well done :-)

Wookey

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