Arch Linux User Repository

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.

could you edit the the source name from local://CiscoPacketTracer822_amd64_signed.deb to local://local://Packet_Tracer822_amd64_signed.deb because that is the name of the file form netcad

A small tutorial for those who are not familiar with PKGs

1. Download the original .deb that cisco gives you.

2. Clone this repository

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packettracer.git

1. Move the .deb that you installed

mv <location of your .dev> packettracer

1. Go into the directory and build the pkg

cd packettracer
makepkg -si

Note: I got an error with the package name, you can just rename it and it works.

Another note: This is the first time I do something related to PKGBUILDs, if I did some malpractice or it is badly explained delete the comment please.

@khing0_0 If you can download from the official site, that's always better. If you want to download from this site... I think using the SHA256 checksum to verify is a secure-ish way of doing things, because there aren't supposed to be any hash collisions in that algorithm yet. But it's worth remembering that even if that site does redistribute bona fide Packet Tracer downloads, the program still requires a NetAcad/SkillsForAll login at runtime before it will let you do anything.

Is it bad to fetch from this 3rd party site?

https://www.computernetworkingnotes.com/ccna-study-guide/download-packet-tracer-for-windows-and-linux.html

then using the checksum from Original Cisco Site

@prRoumanet You are correct, you need to download the .deb manually from Cisco NetAcad or SkillsForAll (you probably need to sign in first) and place it in the same folder as the PKGBUILD. Then, as long as the SHA512 matches, the build will succeed.

Basically, the PKGBUILD was designed to use a local .deb file; it is probably illegal to distribute it, so they make people download it manually.

I can't build packettracer 8.2.2-1

==> Récupération des sources…
==> ERREUR : CiscoPacketTracer822_amd64_signed.deb n’a pas été trouvé dans le répertoire de travail et n’est pas un URL.
Erreur: Impossible de construire packettracer

If I download .deb manually, how should I modify PKGBUILD to use my local file?

Hello,

There are two problems with this packages right now. First, you are not really supposed to install binaries into /opt/, as denoted by namcap. Secondly, your license() is not SPDX compliant. For this custom CISCO EULA, you would need LicenseRef-Cisco-EULA.

Here is a patch file that changes the licenses and also makes it more compliant with a normal package:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index a213397..5ff6e5c 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ arch=( 'x86_64' )
 depends=('openssl>=1.0' 'dbus' 'icu' 'glib2' 'libxml2' 'libjpeg-turbo' 'nss' 'libxss' 'java-runtime>=1.7.0' 'qt5-multimedia' 'qt5-webengine' 'qt5-svg' 'qt5-networkauth' 'qt5-websockets' 'qt5-script' 'qt5-speech')
 options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
 url="https://www.netacad.com/courses/packet-tracer"
-license=('custom')
+license=('LicenseRef-Cisco-EULA')

 source=('local://CiscoPacketTracer822_amd64_signed.deb'
    'packettracer.sh'
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ package() {

    tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    chown -R 0:0 "${pkgdir}"
-   mv "${pkgdir}/opt/pt/" "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/"
+   mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/"
+   mv "${pkgdir}/opt/pt/" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/packettracer/"
    mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/"
    mv "${srcdir}/cisco-pt.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/cisco-pt.desktop"
    mv "${srcdir}/cisco-ptsa.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/cisco-ptsa.desktop"
@@ -37,21 +38,21 @@ package() {
    mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/"

    find "${pkgdir}" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
-   find "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/help/" -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
-   find "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/saves/" -type d -exec chmod 555 {} \;
-   find "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/art/html/network_controller/" -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
-   find "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/art/RackView/CablePegboard/" -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
-   find "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/bin/xcbglintegrations/" -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
-   find "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/help/default/NetconRestAPI/" -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
+   find "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/packettracer/help/" -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
+   find "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/packettracer/saves/" -type d -exec chmod 555 {} \;
+   find "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/packettracer/art/html/network_controller/" -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
+   find "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/packettracer/art/RackView/CablePegboard/" -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
+   find "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/packettracer/bin/xcbglintegrations/" -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
+   find "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/packettracer/help/default/NetconRestAPI/" -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

-   ln -s /opt/packettracer/packettracer "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/packettracer"
+   ln -s /usr/lib/packettracer/packettracer "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/packettracer"

-   ln -s /usr/lib/libdouble-conversion.so "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/bin/libdouble-conversion.so.1"
+   ln -s /usr/lib/libdouble-conversion.so "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/packettracer/bin/libdouble-conversion.so.1"

-   sed -i 's|/opt/pt|/opt/packettracer|' "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/linguist" "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/packettracer"
+   sed -i 's|/opt/pt|/usr/lib/packettracer|' "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/packettracer/linguist" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/packettracer/packettracer"

    install -D -m755 "${srcdir}/packettracer.sh" "${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d/packettracer.sh"

-   install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/help/default/copyrights.htm" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/COPYRIGHT"
+   install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/packettracer/help/default/copyrights.htm" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/COPYRIGHT"

 }

Hey, I've installed the package but i keep getting this error when trying to run it

❯ packettracer
Starting Packet Tracer 8.2.2
/usr/bin/packettracer: line 8: 87476 Aborted                 (core dumped) ./PacketTracer "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1

Please move the mime icon files, they are not detected by KDE:

mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes"
mv "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/pka.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/application-x-pka.png"
mv "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/pks.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/application-x-pks.png"
mv "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/pksz.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/application-x-pksz.png"
mv "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/pkt.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/application-x-pkt.png"
mv "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/pkz.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/application-x-pkz.png"
rmdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes"

If this can help anyone to simplify the installation and the maintenance:

1. we usually download the deb package from the browser which saves the file in ~/Downloads

2. Cisco provides two places to download the package and names them in two different ways

3. the downloaded package should be moved to the PKGBUILD folder, but we always forget where that is

this is the link to the PKGBUILD.