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
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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.