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Monday, 26 March 2012

Installing Cisco Packet Tracer on Ubuntu 12.04

So I've tried to install Packet tracer as per normal and all seems to go well but the program will not open! Anyone with any ideas?

File: PacketTracer532_i386_installer-deb.bin

(I used chmod +x before running the installer).

I know it's in BETA but there were no issues with the last stable release and i've kept this distro updated.

FIX: Install something like WINE which will include dependencies that Packet Tracer also needs to run. I don't know why Cisco doesn't state the dependencies or include them!

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Update on 03 April 2013: Has anyone had a chance to test this on 13.04? I've not had a chance myself and would appreciate anyone commenting below. Thanks!

6 comments:

  1. Here's how to install Packet Tracer on 64-bit Linux: http://kaslnetwork.com/articles/installing-cisco-packettracer-5-3-2-on-64-bit-ubuntu-or-debian/

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  2. I mentioned above that it works once some of the dependencies are installed. I did not mean that you had to 'use' WINE to run packet tracer. The native program works with what I presume are shared dependencies that the WINE install, installs.

    Hope that helps.

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  3. Save it in your home directory, not in a folder. I was going mental because I was being told no such file or directory exists.

    >Save it directly in the home folder
    >sudo chmod +x PacketTracer533_i386_installer-deb.bin
    >./PacketTracer533_i386_installer-deb.bin

    follow the promts.

    Hope this helps, folks!

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  4. I've moved over to OSX now but I'll occasionally try this on new releases. I haven't got a use for my Raspberry Pi at the moment so will likely set it up on that at some point. I was also thinking to get a few for hosts on GNS labs as I have a new found love for that with no packet tracer on OSX...

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