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Easy install of Cisco Packet Tracer on Your Linux distro
Welcome!
In the times long gone Cisco has been releasing It's Packet Tracer utility for various platforms e.g. Windows, MacOS, .deb based, .rpm based and Arch based GNU/Linux distributions. The release tree was cut short except first three OS' mentioned earlier. This installer returns the mint-fresh version to the Linux desktops.
If any of this returns error, add sudo at the start.
Install
Open terminal (ctrl + alt + t) and enter Your Downloads/ directory.
Clone this repo or download .zip and extract it there. Enter it and run ./install.sh. Let the magic do the trick.
When installation is complete Packet Tracer should be accesible from Application menu, Ulauncher and Desktop.
Command packettracer can be run in Terminal. You can run packettracer --no-sandbox too.
Have You encountered any errors head back to Before We begin or Known issues chapter.
Known issues
Arch Linux XFCE despite having xdg-utlis package was lacking xdg-user-dirs. It could've been bypassed by modifying the installation script and setting DOWNLOADS_DIR as ~/Downloads or wherever the .deb file's been saved, though I wanted to keep this installer as user-friendly as it could get.
Arch Linux XFCE lacks full qt5. You have to install it first by running sudo pacman -S qt5 and selecting all (I haven't figured out which one exactly solved the issue).
Feel free to report bugs.
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