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pjrinaldi / wombatforensics

linux c++, fox-toolkit, multi-threaded forensic gui tool
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Make instructions for installing in Kali #477

Open bittib010 opened 1 year ago

bittib010 commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Would love to test this out in Kali - which Iam mostly familiar with. Trying out a few different things to make it work didnt work for me. Any description to do so is highly appreciated and probably a great addition to this as well!.

Describe the solution you'd like Kali Installation instruction for Wombat Forensics.

Additional context I see you're considering making it available to more OSs, Kali might not be the biggest hassle to bring forward I hope.

pjrinaldi commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your interest. I am currently in the process of reimplementing where I was by switching from QT to FOX toolkit. I am still a long ways off from getting everything back to where it was. Right now, I have only reimplemented FAT12/16 support. But once I get the FOX version back to where the QT version was, I will look into implementing a Kali install script or at the very least installation instructions. I'm not sure how long it will be until I get it in a workable state, as I have other projects I am working on including a Registry viewer, mailbox (msg, eml, mbox, pst) viewer, File Hashing/Comparison Tool, soon to be started Jmp List Viewer, and initially started and hope to get back to soon SQLite viewer.

The goal is to get these external tools working, and then call them from Wombat Forensics to parse/view these file formats which means I only have to maintain one code base and not the internal viewers in Wombat Forensics and the individual tools.

bittib010 commented 1 year ago

Thank you for that informative comment. I think ive read about the qt transition to fox. Ill try going through arch (?). Do you have any preferred method of setting it up? It doesnt have gui to begin with, right?

pjrinaldi commented 6 months ago

The configuration/compilation doesn't have a gui. I am working on figuring out the required packages, libraries, user groups etc that are needed to be able to download the release, and simply unpack, change into the directory and run the makefile, but I have either been working on other things or haven't had time to setup a test environment and document step by step what is needed/missing to go from download to make to run.