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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.

Starting with version 7.2.2 Packet Tracer no longer requires Java. please remove it from deps

https://wiki.ihitc.net/w/Cisco_Packet_Tracer_Setup_Guide

Buenas tardes a todos, espero me puedan ayudar... por alguna razon no me deja instalar packet tracer en manjaro, modifique el archivo PKGBUILD de esta manera:

Maintainer: Runnytu < runnytu at gmail dot com >

OldMaintainer: Alexey Kharlamov der@2-47.ru

Contributor: David Dufberg Tøttrup <david at dufberg dot se>

Contributor: Jordi De Groof <jordi(dot)degroof(at)gmail(dot)com>

Contributor: pyther pyther@pyther.net

Contributor: z3ntu WEI16416@spengergasse.at

pkgname=packettracer pkgver=7.3.0 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="PacketTracer_730_amd64" arch=( 'x86_64' ) depends=('openssl-1.0' 'libpng12' 'icu') options=('!strip' '!emptydirs') install=${pkgname}.install license=('custom')

source=('file:///home/juan/Descargas/PacketTracer_730_amd64.deb' 'packettracer.sh') sha512sums=('b06275775703791d56618d99fa7daf29a8a5c82dc17b66d12a9b29927f0a97deb082a757c0cdf72c2345ac32449d0506dad35237ac9935db2e86982e115f1ae1' '156579687c5eb63ef2065b28625d9faeee96d2224248c6883a92264f5c0e800c5ab9206ad4c6afebb9dcdbe6b880a9a24caf96044a7c97df743473933fcd2c4d')

package() { tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}" mv ${pkgdir}/opt/pt/ ${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/

mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/"
ln -s ${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/packettracer"

sed 's/\/opt\/pt/\/opt\/packettracer/' -i "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/linguist"
sed 's/\/opt\/pt/\/opt\/packettracer/' -i "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/packettracer"
sed 's/\/opt\/pt/\/opt\/packettracer/' -i "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/bin/Cisco-PacketTracer.desktop"
sed 's/\/opt\/pt/\/opt\/packettracer/' -i "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/cisco-pt7.desktop"
rm "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/cisco-ptsa7.desktop"
sed -e "\$aCategories=Application;Network;" -i "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/cisco-pt7.desktop"

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

install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/saves/Switch/IE_2000/upgrade_downgrade_license_on_ie2000.pkt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/help/default/copyrights.htm" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/COPYRIGHT"
install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/opt/packettracer/eula730.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/EULA"

}

Resulta que el archivo original que esta actualmente salen mas errores pero asi como lo tengo solo me lanza estos errores:

Construyendo packettracer... ==> Creando el paquete: packettracer 7.3.0-2 (mar 04 feb 2020 14:41:59 CST) ==> Comprobando dependencias mientras se ejecuta... ==> Comprobando dependencias mientras se compila... ==> Recibiendo las fuentes... -> PacketTracer_730_amd64.deb ha sido encontrado -> packettracer.sh ha sido encontrado ==> Validando los archivos source con sha512sums... PacketTracer_730_amd64.deb ... Aprobado packettracer.sh ... Aprobado ==> Eliminando el directorio $srcdir/... ==> Extrayendo las fuentes... ==> Eliminando el directorio $pkgdir/... ==> Entrando en entorno fakeroot... ==> Iniciando package()... tar: data.tar.xz: No se puede efectuar open: No existe el fichero o el directorio tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now ==> ERROR: Se produjo un fallo en package(). Cancelando...

gracias a todos!

I'm on manjaro 18.1.5 with the 4.19 LTS kernel.

You have to manually install this. Because in the PKGBUILD file he has this line to download the binary .deb file yourself: source=('local://PacketTracer_730_amd64.deb' 'packettracer.sh')

You can either download it from some random website, or make an account on netacad.com. I got it from official site, and friend got it from some other source. Ours both had the same hash value, which also matches the sha512sum in the PKGBUILD here:
sha256sum PacketTracer_730_amd64.deb
67d8acee7e101d99e12e47c74bc8ed56c28a596adaa2f3032593fbe0bb83198c PacketTracer_730_amd64.deb

What I did was run "yay -S packettracer" which puts all the necessary files in "/home/$USER/.cache/yay/packettracer/". It gives an error:
ERROR: PacketTracer_730_amd64.deb was not found in the build directory and is not a URL.

Delete the packettracer folder, then set it up manually.
cd /home/$USER/.cache/yay && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packettracer.git
copy the "PacketTracer_730_amd64.deb" file into this packettracer folder. And now run "yay -S packettracer" and it installs without any errors cuz it finds the .deb file at source=('local://PacketTracer_730_amd64.deb'......).

When you run "yay -S packettracer", it asks: ==> Packages to cleanBuild?
Hit 'n' for no. If you hit yes, it deletes the entire git repo dir we just set up.

Why don't you put a link to the deb file instead of leaving it as a responsibility of the user?

This package is missing several dependencies to covers PacketTracer7's needed libraries. Not sure what the specific requirements are, but to get what I was missing I installed qt5-svg qt5-webkit qt5-script qt5-multimedia qt5-webengine.

The symbolic link created in the install file should be done in the PKGBUILD.

I get this message when trying to start exam on Plasma. Could not find any application or handler for pttp://launchvdsptsa... I think there should be .desktop file that handles these links.

The .install script in this package is an abomination and should never have been uploaded to the internet as is.

• Don't use sudo in .install scripts, the sudo package is potentially not even installed on the target system and the scripts run under UID 0 anyway.

• The remove_pt() in pre_install() stuff belongs either in the PKGBUILD or should be removed since it's not used anywhere in the script. Why should these files not be tracked by pacman?

• Updating the various icon/desktop/mime DBs and caches should be left to the libalpm hooks that provide these binaries, it doesn't belong here.

• Editing files that or owned by other packages is a big NO! NO!, you do not simply mangle /etc/profile, this has to go away. We have /etc/profile.d for this exact reason or alternatively communicate to the user that they have to set them manually in their configs.

TLDR: For getting it to work in Manjaro I had to: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libdouble-conversion.so /opt/packettracer/bin/libdouble-conversion.so.1

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While installing the package, I get those warnings:

warning: directory permissions differ on /opt/packettracer/help/

filesystem: 755 package: 777

warning: directory permissions differ on /opt/packettracer/saves/

filesystem: 755 package: 555

But it seems to install fine, but it does not run in my Manjaro by default.

[deemon@Zen packettracer]$ /opt/packettracer/packettracer

Starting Packet Tracer 7.3.0

[deemon@Zen packettracer]$

...aaand nothing happens.

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OI! got it working... while analyzing the contents of bash script /opt/packettracer/packettracer (default installed executable for this program) I tried to run the command with the given variables...

[deemon@Zen packettracer]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/packettracer/bin PTDIR=/opt/packettracer /opt/packettracer/bin/PacketTracer7

/opt/packettracer/bin/PacketTracer7: error while loading shared libraries: libdouble-conversion.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

and then tried to run it WITHOUT the LD_LIBRARY_PATH crap and it started working!!! :-)

[deemon@Zen packettracer]$ /opt/packettracer/bin/PacketTracer7

and it WORKS! :)

and or creating symbolic link for the library works also: [deemon@Zen bin]$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libdouble-conversion.so /opt/packettracer/bin/libdouble-conversion.so.1