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Installing Cisco Packet tracer in Linux

Cisco packet tracer

What is Cisco Packet tracer ?

Cisco Packet tracer is a powerful network simulator tool which used to trained while we do some
Cisco certifications. It provide us good Interface view for every router’s, and networking devices
which with many options same as using the physical machines we can use unlimited devices in a
network. We can create multiple network in single project to get trained like a professionals. packet
tracer will provide us with simulated application layer protocols such as HTTP, DNS, Routing with
RIP, OSPF, EIGRP etc.

Now it has been released including ASA 5505 firewall with command line configurations. Packet
tracer available commonly for Windows, but not for Linux distributions. Here we can download and
get install Cisco package tracer.

Newly released version of Cisco packet tracer:

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The next Cisco Packet Tracer version will be Cisco Packet Tracer 6.2 currently it’s under
development.

My Environment Setup:

Hostname : desktop1.unixmen.com

IP address : 192.168.0.167

Operating system : Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Desktop

The following commands will give the above details.

hostname

ifconfig | grep inet

lsb_release -a

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Step 1: First we need to download the Cisco Packet tracer.

To download Packet Tracer from official website we need to have a token, sign into Cisco NetSpace
and select CCNA > Cisco Packet Tracer from the Offerings menu to start the download. If we don’t
have a token you can get from below link which i have uploaded in Dropbox.

Official Website: https://www.netacad.com/

Many of them don’t have a token to download packet tracer. For that i have uploaded it in dropbox
you can get packet tracer from below URL.

Download Cisco Packet Tracer 6.1.1

Step 2: Install Java:

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To get install packet tracer we need to have install Java, To get install java we can use the default or
add the PPA repository and update the package cache to get install java.
Install the default jre using

sudo apt-get install default-jre

(or)

Use the below step to get install Java Run-time and set the Environment.

Download Java from official website : Download Java

tar -zxvf jre-8u31-linux-x64.tar.gz

sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/jvm

sudo mv -v jre1.8.0_31 /usr/lib/jvm/

cd /usr/lib/jvm/

sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/lib

sudo update-alternatives --set "java" "/usr/lib/jvm/jre1.8.0_31/bin/java"

Set the environment for java by editing the profile file and add the location. While we adding in
profile file java will available for every user’s in our machine.

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sudo vi /etc/profile

Add the following entries to the bottom of your /etc/profile file:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre1.8.0_31
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jre1.8.0_31/bin

Run the below command to activate java path immediately.

. /etc/profile

Check for the Java version and Environment:

echo $JAVA_HOME

java -version

Step 3: Enable 32bit architecture support:

For Packet tracer we need some of 32bit packages. To get install 32bit packages we need to install
some of dependencies using below commands.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

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sudo apt-get install libc6:i386

sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0

sudo apt-get install libnss3-1d:i386 libqt4-qt3support:i386 libssl1.0.0:i386

Step 4: Extract and install the package:

Extract the downloaded package using tar command.

mv Cisco\ Packet\ Tracer\ 6.1.1\ Linux.tar.gz\?dl\=0 Cisco_Packet_tracer.tar.gz

tar -zxvf Cisco_Packet_tracer.tar.gz

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Navigate to the extracted directory:

cd PacketTracer611Student

Now it’s time to start the installation , Installation is very simple and just take few seconds.

sudo ./install

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To working with Package tracer we need to set the environment for that Cisco have provided the
environment script, We need to run the script using root user to set the environment variable.

sudo ./set_ptenv.sh

That’s it for installation step’s. next we need to create a Desktop Icon for Packet tracer.
Create the Desktop Icon by creating desktop file under.

sudo su

cd /usr/share/applications

sudo vim packettracer.desktop

Append the Below content to the file using vim editor or your favourite one.

[Desktop Entry]
Name= Packettracer

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Comment=Networking
GenericName=Cisco Packettracer
Exec=/opt/packettracer/packettracer
Icon=/usr/share/icons/packettracer.jpeg
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application

Save and quit using wq!

Step 5: Run the packet tracer

sudo packettracer

That’s it we have successfully installed the packet tracer in Linux, These above steps are suitable
for every debian based Linux distributions.

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Resources:

Home page: Netacad

Conclusion:

Here we have seen how to install packet tracer in Linux distribution, Hope you have find a way to
get install your favorite Simulator in Linux.

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Arjun Mayilvaganan
Same problem, Same Linux Distribution. If you had that problem resolved, please let me know.

Alexis
Installing PT 6.3 on Debian 8.3…. thank.

NN#4
same in debian 8.2, when i install it, the first time it runs, but if i close or reboot, it does not work
anymore

Martin Krajčírovič
Command not found:
sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386

Saeid
Thank you very much. I installed PT on Debian Jessie and it works for me. Just I had to remove
“sudo” from both files “install” and “set_ptenv.sh”.

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