Package Details: packettracer 8.2.2-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/packettracer.git (read-only, click to copy)
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: 1.00
First Submitted: 2009-02-18 07:52 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-05-04 15:40 (UTC)

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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.

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ehwuts commented on 2020-01-28 06:54 (UTC)

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.

eduardosm commented on 2020-01-25 19:45 (UTC)

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

waranty92 commented on 2020-01-13 11:25 (UTC)

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.

Namarrgon commented on 2020-01-08 16:42 (UTC) (edited on 2020-01-08 17:05 (UTC) by Namarrgon)

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.

deemon commented on 2020-01-04 21:17 (UTC) (edited on 2020-01-04 22:02 (UTC) by deemon)

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

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.

bandithijo commented on 2019-12-14 16:16 (UTC)

Packet Tracer 7.3.0 has released. They change installer from .run on (7.2.2) to .deb now (7.3.0).

Madexter commented on 2019-11-22 14:21 (UTC) (edited on 2019-11-22 14:22 (UTC) by Madexter)

Hello, update the package with these datas below:

url="https://www.netacad.com/portal/sites/default/files/resources/PacketTracer/packet_tracer_7.2.1_for_linux_64_bit.tar.gz" local://packet_tracer_7.2.1_for_linux_64_bit.tar.gz

Already tested here and functioning perfect.

Keep going.

runnytu commented on 2019-11-04 05:50 (UTC) (edited on 2020-01-04 16:58 (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.

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