About GSA Desktop
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The GSA Desktop is a desktop client that connects to the OpenVAS Manager using
the OMP protocol.

It uses the Qt framework for the GUI and is implemented in C++.  Main
dependencies are qt4, gnutls, glib and openvas-libraries.

GSA Desktop is licensed under GNU General Public License Version 2 or any later
version. Please see file COPYING for details.

All parts of GSA Desktop are Copyright (C) 2010 by Greenbone Networks GmbH (see
http://www.greenbone.net).


How to use
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Simply start the GSA Desktop client by running the command

  gsa-desktop

You will need a OMP service running, e.g. like openvas-manager.


Known Issues
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* GSA Desktop does not yet cover the full functionality provided by OMP.

* It is recommended to run GSA Desktop with then environment variable LANG set
  to "C". Other settings currently cause dates to be displayed incorrectly in
  the interface.
