| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/packettracer.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | packettracer |
| Description: | A cross-platform visual simulation tool designed by Cisco Systems that allows users to create network topologies and imitate modern computer network |
| Upstream URL: | https://www.netacad.com/courses/packet-tracer |
| Licenses: | LicenseRef-Cisco-EULA |
| Submitter: | Vamp898 |
| Maintainer: | runnytu |
| Last Packager: | runnytu |
| Votes: | 151 |
| Popularity: | 2.31 |
| First Submitted: | 2009-02-18 07:52 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-05-04 15:40 (UTC) |
If Packet Tracer won't start, it may be because of the missing library libxml2.so.2.
To fix it, simply install libxml2-legacy package:
pacman -S extra/libxml2-legacy
Check https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2239686#p2239686
According to strace output, the issue with Packet Tracer appears to be a missing shared library: libxml2.so.2.
./PacketTracer: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Im having this issue after following some advices
==> Starting package()...
tar: data.tar.xz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
Aborting...
A guide to downloading and installing:
1.: Download the .deb file from https://www.netacad.com/resources/lab-downloads (you need to sign in)
2.: Try to install this package with an AUR helper
3.: Copy the Downloaded file to /home/benjamin/.cache/yay/packettracer/ and name it CiscoPacketTracer822_amd64_signed.deb.
4.: Install again with an AUR helper
5.: Should work now.
Deb name has been renamed to Packet_Tracer822_amd64_signed.deb
For those it might help I followed the steps in this Reddit post to generate a light mode profile for the app to pass alone via ENV variables:
https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/lcm2n3/how_to_make_specific_application_ignore_system/
@dead_donkey Yeah lol, I ended up finding out about this while I was waiting for somebody to reply on my comment. I'll probably use the windows version with wine. As, it seemed to work for some other user.
@chared Are you using the dark theme on your desktop environment, by any chance? I had this issue - using dark theme changes the text colour in the workspace to white, but the background of the workspace also stays white, rendering the text usually invisible. As a workaround I ended up creating a VM for Packet Tracer, but you could also just use light theme on your main installation instead.
I installed the tracer successfully, but when I try to make a logical topology it doesn't show me the names of the devices that I've used in the workspace. Is this an issue with the graphics driver or did something go wrong with the build? (I didn't notice any errors during the build). Also, I've enabled "show device names" in the preferences.
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runnytu commented on 2020-01-04 16:58 (UTC) (edited on 2020-01-04 16:59 (UTC) by runnytu)
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.