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[SP2019]Put software on laptops #190

Closed trickeydan closed 5 years ago

trickeydan commented 5 years ago

We've got 16 laptops from isolutions. We need to boot them up, check we can log in, and install pycharm.

Originally posted by @kierdavis in https://github.com/sourcebots/tasks/issues/86#issuecomment-520488219

kierdavis commented 5 years ago

They are domain-build, so we can't install pycharm on them.

kierdavis commented 5 years ago

A workaround is to build some live USBs.

PeterJCLaw commented 5 years ago

We booted one up:

it requires a network connection (cable or WiFi) in order to be logged into; it asks for credentials for Eduroam
when logging in with an @soton.ac.uk account, it doesn't automatically connect to Eduroam with the login credentials

Unfortunately we didn't try installing anything.

PeterJCLaw commented 5 years ago

We've confirmed that there's a place on the machines which we can put things so that they persist being logged out and between different users.

Plan is to use that, combined with a PowerShell script which uses chocolatey to install the programs we want (many in a portable mode).

PeterJCLaw commented 5 years ago

Turns out, we might actually have admin on the laptops. This is frustrating to find out now, but makes this much easier.

nmalky commented 5 years ago

(it appears that the "admin" we get doesn't do what we want). @PeterJCLaw @trickeydan will you be able to configure things? I won't be around until 2pm or so.

install python3.7 separately, from the website
then, pycharm should work (can install manually if need be)

PeterJCLaw commented 5 years ago

Sorry, only just seen this. I'm currently busy in the Cube, so I doubt I'll get to look at this any time soon.

PeterJCLaw commented 5 years ago

This is apparently not happening. The competitors will need to do this themselves under guidance from us.