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# PacketTracer

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## The easy way

You can just download the generic version (when you are logged in) and install it like any other program.

Or you can use the AUR package packettracer:

Requirements:

You should have installed the package group base-devel before (pacman -S base-devel).

- Download PacketTracer533_Generic_Fedora.tar.gz (you can find this package with google)
- Download https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pa/packettracer/packettracer.tar.gz:

    wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pa/packettracer/packettracer.tar.gz

- Extract packettracer.tar.gz and go into that directory:

    tar -xzf packettracer.tar.gz
    cd packettracer

- Put PacketTracer533_Generic_Fedora.tar.gz into that directory.
- Run makepkg as a normal user:

    makepkg

- The Package is now build and you could install it for your platform (as root):

    pacman -U packettracer-5.3.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz

or

    pacman -U packettracer-5.3.3-1-amd64.pkg.tar.xz

- Done.

## The hard (old) way

PacketTracer is an application from Cisco that allows network simulations and training using Cisco/Linksys products (like routers/switches/wireless hardware).

I used to run it under Wine but the Linux version is now available; unfortunately it is only for Ubuntu/Debian and Fedora/Red Hat.

But of course it can be installed on Arch (what can't you do with Arch? :)) with a little work.

- Run the installer. While it displays the license agreement, DO NOT DO ANYTHING! Go to another terminal and run

    find /tmp -iname *.deb

- Grab the .deb file, put it somewhere (like `~/tmp`) and issue this command:

    bsdtar -xf PacketTracer-5.0-u.i386.deb data.tar.gz

- Decompress the data.tar.gz file, it will create a folder `usr` within the currently directory, and within `usr/local` there is a folder 'PacketTracer5'. Move it to `/usr/local/`.

- To run:

    /usr/local/PacketTracer5/bin/PacketTracer5

Enjoy :)

Looks ugly, but you can fix this and make it grab your system theme by symlinking the Qt libraries in `/usr/local/PacketTracer5/lib/` to the ones in `/usr/lib`, e.g.

    libQt3Support.so.4.3.3 -> /usr/lib/libQt3Support.so.4
    libQtCore.so.4.3.3 -> /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.3.3
    libQtGui.so.4.3.3 -> /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.3.3
    libQtNetwork.so.4.3.3 -> /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4
    libQtSql.so.4.3.3 -> /usr/lib/libQtSql.so.4
    libQtXml.so.4.3.3 -> /usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4

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