Arch Linux User Repository

After install version 9.0.0, you should execute from console: "./usr/lib/packettracer/packettracer.AppImage" in order to accept the license and install the desktop files.

To install all versions of packettracer except 7.2.2, follow this guidelines: 1. Download the snapshot from this AUR. 2. Tar -zxf the packettracer.tar.gz snapshot (it creates the dir packettracer/ with the PKGBUILD on it). 3. Download the latest packettracer tarball from your Netacad account and copy it into the packettracer/ dir. 4. Create the package with the command makepkg (it creates a packettracer.pkg.tar.xz). 5. Install the package with either makepkg -i or sudo pacman -U packettracer.pkg.tar.xz.

Packettracer 7.2.2 are auto installable via run file, download it from netacad webpage and run it, you don't need this package.

I'm also having the same issues with any preferences made not saving, and also having to log on for each session, which is something I did not have to do on 8.2.2.

Download URL for .deb file (which is a required source, and manual download):

https://www.netacad.com/resources/lab-downloads

in previous version 8, i could change the user directory location from default (/home/pt) to other location like /home/.config/pt, but after upgrading to version 9.0.0 and trying to do the same, every time i open the application, it can't load the configuration that i changed the location of, instead it creates the default directory again, how to fix this

Why I can not drag anything from the shelf to the table?

Video

Before you try to excecute this: "./usr/lib/packettracer/packettracer.AppImage". you must do: mkdir '~/.local/share/applications'. because something like this might happen: /tmp/.mount_packetL8YiIZ/pt-manage.sh: line 105: /home/{USER}/.local/share/applications/CiscoPacketTracer-9.0.0.desktop: No such file or directory. And the other errors as usuall.

After install version 9.0.0, you should execute from console: "./usr/lib/packettracer/packettracer.AppImage" in order to accept the license and install the desktop files.

I tried the pinned comments above but it didn't work because in my Netacad account I can't find tarballs; only a Ubuntu deb package. So here's what I did:

1. Installed the debtap package from the AUR. It converts deb packages to Arch packages. I did it using paru -S debtap
2. Updated debtap local database: sudo debtap -u
3. Downloaded the Ubuntu deb package.
4. Converted the .deb package into an Arch Linux package with the pkg.*.zst extension. During the conversion, a prompt may appear asking for a package license number. Proceed by pressing the Enter key: sudo debtap Packet_Tracer822_amd64_signed.deb
5. Installed the Arch Linux package by running the pacman -U command: sudo pacman -U packettracer-8.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

To anyone else having issues with QT version mismatch after the 5.15.17 update, this is how I resolved it: 1. Add export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/packettracer/bin to /usr/bin/packettracer. 2. Create a symlink with ln -s /usr/lib/packettracer/bin/icudtl.dat /usr/lib/packettracer/bin/resources/icudtl.dat.

The issue is probably because the packettracer package needs QT_QPA_PLATFORM environmental variable to be set to xcb for xwayland . It has been recommended here Wayland on Arch Linux ,that you set it to

export QT_QPA_PLATFORM="wayland,xcb"

So that if wayland support is not found it falls back to xorg. If you use uwsm you can add this to your .config/uwsm/env file and it should now be able to run packettracer. Alternatively you can open a terminal and run the above line and if you launch packettracer from the shell it should work for the duration of that shell.