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: 2.31
First Submitted: 2009-02-18 07:52 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-05-04 15:40 (UTC)

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Pinned Comments

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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GraysonPeddie commented on 2021-01-29 16:12 (UTC)

Cisco has released Packet Tracer 8. This is what I've done so far in PKGBUILD:

pkgver=8.0.0 pkgrel=0 ... source=('local://PacketTracer_800_amd64_build212_final.deb' ... sha512sums=('3a56a369ae2028fa866ad2e27bbe07d1bee14fd0f16f82790c5f7ad9b7a7c3fc39b4b88d52aae652dccf1a21a3ae0f433e8b586ace4f48dfab7271524c5d163c' '09d07ec95712f562bb9217b40a0a04cbb16e42523801b62180050326d67d3592f2ce92444440a10a6e94951c6cf53e27fb360395ef5f3732c71edc51e6a85726' 'a72fca826331a2c201e04c7eca727c6f73306cf4c26f0f6608896da345780bef248ed2be285e42c8aeacea0f6968ab78a7bc0d2bb8f60c544f5eb47f56dab5bb' ... #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-pt.desktop" sed 's/\/opt\/pt/\/opt\/packettracer/' -i "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/cisco-ptsa.desktop" sed -e "\$aCategories=Application;Network;" -i "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/cisco-pt.desktop" sed -e "\$aCategories=Application;Network;" -i "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/cisco-ptsa.desktop" sed -e "\$aNoDisplay=true" -i "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/cisco-ptsa.desktop" ...

packettracer.install:

post_install() { xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor &> /dev/null xdg-desktop-menu install /usr/share/applications/cisco-pt.desktop xdg-desktop-menu install /usr/share/applications/cisco-ptsa.desktop update-mime-database /usr/share/mime gtk-update-icon-cache --force /usr/share/icons/gnome }

post_upgrade() { post_install }

post_remove() { xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor &> /dev/null xdg-desktop-menu uninstall /usr/share/applications/cisco-pt.desktop xdg-desktop-menu uninstall /usr/share/applications/cisco-ptsa.desktop update-mime-database /usr/share/mime gtk-update-icon-cache --force /usr/share/icons/gnome }

Can everyone please confirm that the new PKGBUILD and packettracer.install works? Download the .deb file from the Network Academy's website (once you log in, of course) and put it in the packettracer directory where the PKGBUILD is located.

Regards, Grayson Peddie

Emru commented on 2021-01-25 22:51 (UTC) (edited on 2021-01-25 22:51 (UTC) by Emru)

sevbesau, copy deb file to directory where PKGBUILD sits, run ar x PacketTracer_731_amd64.deb and then run makepkg

marcelo0097 commented on 2021-01-19 04:19 (UTC) (edited on 2021-01-19 04:19 (UTC) by marcelo0097)

Works fine but the only options for cli font are courier and courier new. is it just me?

lberrymage commented on 2021-01-13 08:07 (UTC)

@guitaristtom From the wiki:

AUR helpers are not supported by Arch Linux. You should become familiar with the manual build process...

so to answer your question, no. PKGBUILDS should download the source code/binaries automatically, but since Packet Tracer doesn't have a stable download link, we are forced to download it manually.

guitaristtom commented on 2021-01-13 01:44 (UTC)

Isn't the point of having it on the AUR so that we don't have to download and do makepkg manually? 0_o

sevbesau commented on 2021-01-05 14:50 (UTC) (edited on 2021-01-05 17:31 (UTC) by sevbesau)

install failed for version 7.3.1. I followed all the steps in the pinned comment, and am sure the deb file is in the right place. let me know if any more information is required :)

==> 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...

<deleted-account> commented on 2021-01-05 12:31 (UTC)

I think libxss should be in dependencies, can't run installed application without it.

aminvakil commented on 2020-10-15 07:14 (UTC)

@con-fused Please read the pinned comment. You should download the lastest tarball yourself.