Getting started

[noah-de]

Greetings!
Thank you for making this great tool.
We have high hopes for using it but are having a tough time getting started.

A few passes through https://cmu-sei.github.io/GHOSTS/ and some other locations helped me figure out how to get the API running, but I was at a loss for the client.

I was glad to have found some clues in past issues.
#352

Could I help by writing documentation to make this process even easier for folks?

[sei-dupdyke]

Testing this all morning — there are definitely issues with Ubuntu 24.04. It seems to be related to Firefox being snap installed. I am getting "xpcomglueload" errors that it couldn't load "XPCOM".

It's been a while since we've used/tested on Ubuntu. I'll have to dig into these errors further, but it does not seem to be a super easy fix that I can post up this morning, sorry.

[sei-dupdyke]

Any pull requests on documentation are always greatly appreciated! 🤜 🤛

[noah-de]

Testing this all morning — there are definitely issues with Ubuntu 24.04. It seems to be related to Firefox being snap installed. I am getting "xpcomglueload" errors that it couldn't load "XPCOM".

It's been a while since we've used/tested on Ubuntu. I'll have to dig into these errors further, but it does not seem to be a super easy fix that I can post up this morning, sorry.

Sorry, I should have been clearer in my reference to a closed issue.

I was grateful to find that a recent issue had a screenshot that indicated how to launch the client on Ubuntu.
The link was there to show that I had found documentation in the closed issues.

Assuming there would be issues with 24.04, I wrangling with 22.04 for now.

This looks like GHOSTS could be a great addition to our cyber range.
I will gladly write some documentation via a pull request.

[sei-dupdyke]

Okay, whew, good to hear.

But I'm going to leave this issue open due to issues that I do see on 24.04. I assume they are related to Firefox being installed via snap and/or permissions that I noted above.