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+## Running your own copy
+
+If you want to run a copy of Spothole with different configuration settings than the main instance, you can download it
+and run it on your own local machine or server.
+
+You will require Python version 3.8 or later. If you encounter an error about `gdal-config` during the following
+process, you will also need `libgdal-dev` installed.
+
+To download and set up Spothole on a Debian server, run the following commands. Other operating systems will likely be
+similar.
+
+```bash
+git clone ssh://git@git.ianrenton.com/ian/spothole.git
+cd spothole
+python3 -m venv ./.venv
+source .venv/bin/activate
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+deactivate
+cp config-example.yml config.yml
+```
+
+Then edit `config.yml` in your text editor of choice to set up the software as you like it. Mostly, this will involve
+enabling or disabling the various providers of spot and alert data.
+
+By default, all outdoor programme providers are enabled, as is one cluster node and the NG3K DXpedition data. The RBN
+spot providers are turned off by default due to the volume of traffic from CW/RTTY/FT8 skimmers, and the APRS and Packet
+spot providers are off by default on the assumption that Spothole users want a spot with a human at the other end of it,
+but all can be easily re-enabled.
+
+Other parameters you will want to update include the base URL to your instance, and whether you want to serve a full
+web-based DX cluster interface or just the API endpoints for client software to use.
+
+`config.yml` has an entry for a Clublog API key. If provided, this will allow Spothole to retrieve some more information
+about DX spots. The software will work just fine without it, but you may find a few country flags etc. are less accurate
+or missing. Clublog API keys are free, but you'll need to get your own by submitting a helpdesk ticket and explaining
+what you'll use it for. The admin team are happy with the rate of requests made by my Spothole server, so unless you
+change the source code of yours to radically increase the rate of querying Clublog, I'm sure they will be fine with your
+server too.
+
+Once you're happy with the content of `config.yml`, you can proceed to running the software.
+
+To run the software this time and any future times you want to run it directly from the command line:
+
+```bash
+source .venv/bin/activate
+python3 spothole.py
+```
+
+The software can take a few seconds to start up, mostly because it is downloading an updated file to match callsigns to
+countries. This is normal, don't panic!
+
+If you see some errors on startup, check your configuration, e.g. in case you have specified a port for the web server
+that is already in use by something else.