How to setup GAM in GCP

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Bairam Hadzovic

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Aug 2, 2018, 4:58:24 PM8/2/18
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Hi All!

Just got a new machine and wanted to find an easier means to transfer GAM to another machine. Came across an old thread that set GAM can be setup in GCP but I am a little confused as to how to do this. Is it like a traditional setup?

Looking forward to any assistance or direction on this!

Best,
Bairam

Ross Scroggs

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Bairam,

It's the same. Install Gam and then copy your client_secrets.json, oauth2service.json, oauth2.txt files to the Gam folder in GCP.
You don't need a new project.

Ross

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Bairam Hadzovic

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Hey Ross!

Does Gam-adv work in GCP as well? That would be a deal breaker as I use its capabilities  extensively. I would assume so, but just want to verify.

Hope you are well by the way!

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Ross Scroggs

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Bairam,

Log in to Google Cloud Shell
Do the following command:
Basic Gam: bash <(curl -s -S -L https://git.io/install-gam) -l
GAMADV-X: bash <(curl -s -S -L https://git.io/vMHsV) -l
GAMADV-XTD: bash <(curl -s -S -L https://git.io/vAAj9) -l

The install will go into /home/username/bin/gam or gamadv-x or gamadv-xtd

Upload client_secrets.json, oauth2service.json and oauth2.txt to the Cloud Shell

For Basic Gam, move the files to the folder containing gam, by default this is /home/username/bin/gam

For GAMADV-X(TD) do gam version, then move the files to /home/username/.gam
Edit /home/username/.gam/gam.cfg and modify cache_dir, config_dir, drive_dir to have the correct path
Typical values:
cache_dir = /home/username/.gam/gamcache
config_dir = /home/username/.gam
drive_dir = /home/username/Downloads

Set an appropriate alias in /home/username/.bash_aliases
Basic: alias gam=/home/username/bin/gam/gam
GAMADV-X: alias gam=/home/username/bin/gamadv-x/gam
GAMADV-XTD: alias gam=/home/username/bin/gamadv-xtd/gam

You should be good to go.

Ross


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Noor Shimul

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May 22, 2019, 7:25:42 AM5/22/19
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Great Ross, 

This worked for me, however when I come out the shell session and went back after couple of hrs and tried again i get an error: ERROR: Client OAuth2 File: /home/"username"/.gam/oauth2.txt, Does not exist or has invalid format

How do I set it so it keeps for permanent in GCP.


Thanks,
Noor
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 5:01 PM Ross Scroggs <ross....@gmail.com> wrote:
Bairam,

It's the same. Install Gam and then copy your client_secrets.json, oauth2service.json, oauth2.txt files to the Gam folder in GCP.
You don't need a new project.

Ross

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 1:58 PM Bairam Hadz <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All!

Just got a new machine and wanted to find an easier means to transfer GAM to another machine. Came across an old thread that set GAM can be setup in GCP but I am a little confused as to how to do this. Is it like a traditional setup?

Looking forward to any assistance or direction on this!

Best,
Bairam

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Shawn Yohannan

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May 31, 2019, 4:51:34 AM5/31/19
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Hey Ross

Everytime I run any of these commands, I get this:

@cloudshell:~$ bash <(curl -s -S -L https://git.io/vMHsV) -l
Checking GitHub URL https://api.github.com/repos/taers232c/GAMADV-X/releases for latest GAM release...

Getting file and download URL...

ERROR: Attribute: browser_download_url for linux-x86_64.tar.xz version latest not found

Any ideas?

Thanks!
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 5:01 PM Ross Scroggs <ross....@gmail.com> wrote:
Bairam,

It's the same. Install Gam and then copy your client_secrets.json, oauth2service.json, oauth2.txt files to the Gam folder in GCP.
You don't need a new project.

Ross

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 1:58 PM Bairam Hadz <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All!

Just got a new machine and wanted to find an easier means to transfer GAM to another machine. Came across an old thread that set GAM can be setup in GCP but I am a little confused as to how to do this. Is it like a traditional setup?

Looking forward to any assistance or direction on this!

Best,
Bairam

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Steve Larsen

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May 31, 2019, 9:14:13 AM5/31/19
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Shawn - not that his will necessarily solve your issue but given that gamadv-x and xtd are being deprecated using xtd3 would be the ideal choice.

bash <(curl -s -S -L https://git.io/fhZWP) -l

Eric Dannewitz

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May 31, 2019, 9:26:28 AM5/31/19
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Are they being deprecated or are you forcing it? Seems like Ross never weighed in on it?

And it seem sort of crazy to have two versions of gam. There is the “basic” one, that Ross seems to heavily commit time keeping up to date and the other versions “advanced gam”, which are arguably way better.

It would really be smarter to just have one version.....

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Steve - DynTech

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May 31, 2019, 9:28:52 AM5/31/19
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Just tried to upgrade gam and it failed

Screenshot 2019-05-31 at 08.28.13.png

Ross Scroggs

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May 31, 2019, 9:31:07 AM5/31/19
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Shawn's immediate problem is that my Linux development machine died with a dead power supply yesterday and will be repaired today; thus there is no current Linux version to download.
The server will be repaired today and the current linux version will be updated.

Steve - DynTech

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May 31, 2019, 9:58:08 AM5/31/19
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We should pick up any further discussion on deprecation on that thread though...

I think he has.
"I just want the one with all the features and a long life ahead of it. Sounds like gamadv-xtd3 is that one, so I'm standardizing on it." - Bri
"GAMADV-XTD3" - Ross

Also, gamadv-x and gamadv-xtd did not get the latest 4.83.13 update like xtd3 did.

Noor Shimul

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Jul 24, 2019, 2:40:44 PM7/24/19
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Hi All,

I am trying to install GAM advance on gcp cloudshell/editor.

When I am trying to authorise the scpe and enter my domain username, it then gives me a link so when I copy and paste the link into the same profile chrome but on separate tab  

I then go through the login and click confirm to authorise it give me an error messages below:

This site can’t be reached

localhost refused to connect.

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED


Ross Scroggs

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Jul 24, 2019, 3:07:39 PM7/24/19
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You should say: gam config no_browser true oauth create
The URL link will be designed to be pasted into another browser tab.

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Noor Shimul

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Jul 25, 2019, 2:31:41 PM7/25/19
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Hi

I run the below command in gcp cloudshell:

GAMADV-X: bash <(curl -s -S -L https://git.io/vMHsV) -l

I have copied both the .json file into .gam locaton

but  i get an error: ERROR: Client OAuth2 File: /home/"username"/.gam/oauth2.txt, Does not exist or has invalid format

or Config File: /home/username/.gam/gam.cfg, Section: DEFAULT, Item: oauth2_txt, Value: /home/username/.gam/oauth2.txt, Not Found

also when I manually go into gamadv-x location and run gam info user .......

i get error: /bin/gamadv-x/gam: No such file or directory






On Wednesday, 24 July 2019 20:07:39 UTC+1, Ross Scroggs wrote:
You should say: gam config no_browser true oauth create
The URL link will be designed to be pasted into another browser tab.

On Jul 24, 2019, at 11:40 AM, Noor Shimul <noor....@cabinetoffice.gov.uk> wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to install GAM advance on gcp cloudshell/editor.

When I am trying to authorise the scpe and enter my domain username, it then gives me a link so when I copy and paste the link into the same profile chrome but on separate tab  

I then go through the login and click confirm to authorise it give me an error messages below:

This site can’t be reached

localhost refused to connect.


ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED



On Thursday, 2 August 2018 21:58:24 UTC+1, Bairam Hadz wrote:
Hi All!

Just got a new machine and wanted to find an easier means to transfer GAM to another machine. Came across an old thread that set GAM can be setup in GCP but I am a little confused as to how to do this. Is it like a traditional setup?

Looking forward to any assistance or direction on this!

Best,
Bairam

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Ross Scroggs

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From my previous reply:
You should say: gam config no_browser true oauth create
The URL link will be designed to be pasted into another browser tab.

Ross
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Noor Shimul

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Jul 25, 2019, 2:53:56 PM7/25/19
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thanks, I have follow the command but still getting an error:



On Thursday, 25 July 2019 19:34:05 UTC+1, Ross Scroggs wrote:
From my previous reply:
You should say: gam config no_browser true oauth create
The URL link will be designed to be pasted into another browser tab.

Ross
Screenshot 2019-07-25 at 19.45.40.png

+KimNilsson

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Jul 26, 2019, 10:55:35 AM7/26/19
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Noor, 
In that exact spot, try this,

./gam config no_browser true oauth create


Bairam Hadzovic

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Aug 28, 2019, 3:45:46 PM8/28/19
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Hey Ross!

Hope you're doing well. I tried following these steps again to install GAM into my new jobs GCP environment but running into a bevy of issues:

GAM error 1.png

GAM error 2.png

Let me know how I can proceed or if we should/can take offline.

Appreciate you and everything you do for the community!
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 5:01 PM Ross Scroggs <ross....@gmail.com> wrote:
Bairam,

It's the same. Install Gam and then copy your client_secrets.json, oauth2service.json, oauth2.txt files to the Gam folder in GCP.
You don't need a new project.

Ross

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 1:58 PM Bairam Hadz <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All!

Just got a new machine and wanted to find an easier means to transfer GAM to another machine. Came across an old thread that set GAM can be setup in GCP but I am a little confused as to how to do this. Is it like a traditional setup?

Looking forward to any assistance or direction on this!

Best,
Bairam

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Tony Nelson

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May 10, 2024, 8:01:24 AM5/10/24
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I'm curious is it possible to setup GAM for multiple Domains in GCP

✉ Kevin Melillo

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I go through the GAM install as normal.  After it installs the files, and asks me if I am ready to begin config, I ctrl-c at that point to break out.
I then copy over the client_secrets.json and the oauth2service.json files to the new ~/bin/gam directory.
I then run gam info domain, and it goes through the oauth2 authentication, and BLAMMO, up and running.

Make sense?

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Kim Nilsson

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With regular GAM, this topic explains how you can use one GAM binary and several OAUTH dirs (or differently named JSONs.


With GAMADV-XTD3 there is a feature called "gam select" which lets you manage any number of domains.

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