Tuesday, June 16, 2009

How to install Cisco packet tracer 5 in Ubuntu linux 9.04

U can install cisco packet tracer in ubuntu 9.04 now. For this all y have to do is to follow the following steps and u r done.

1. Download the packet tracer 5 from cisco site if u r student there [ The generic tar.gz format ] But if u r not a student then download it from here.
click this link to download
And keep the downloaded file in desktop.

2. Open the terminal and write
"sudo tar xzvf PacketTracer5_generic.tar.gz" [without the quotation mark]
Give the sudo password.

3. Now it is uncompressed. Go to your home directory and find the uncompressed folder. Enter into the folder and there u will find a file named "install".
double click on that file and a prompt will come up.
Select "Run in Terminal" option.

4. Now follow the on screen instructions.......

U r half done now.... :)

After this installation u can run this from the terminal.
To run this open the terminal and type "packettracer"
[without the quotation mark]
U can now see the cisco packet tracer running.

if u do not want to do this thing every time, then lets make a launcher ....
to make a launcher,
>> go to desktop.
>>Right click and select "create a launcher"
>> Insert the following values in to its fields.
Type : Application
Name: Packet Tracer 5
Command: packettracer
Comment: CISCO networking

Yes Now u r done......

if u have problem regarding this, plz comment I will try to help ...
or u can mail me "extremeaiub@yahoo.com"

23 comments:

  1. Hey, i have a dell mini 9 with ubuntu 9.10 . when i "run in terminal" i go through the agreement, then double click the "install" file again and click run but, nothing happens.

    plz help

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  2. After runing the 2nd step I get this below results,

    tar: PacketTracer5_generic.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

    And from here when I go to home directory I cant find such file named "uncompressed folder" or even the uncompressed file. I`m stacked, help me am on middle of running a project which on my side I will cisco Packet Tracer simulator to design the network security structure.

    I`m using Ubuntu 9.10

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  3. @ Eddymak,For this just locate ur file location with this command
    sudo tar UR_FILE_LOCATION/xzvf PacketTracer5_generic.tar.gz

    u better move the file into ur home/your_name directory and then put the command. Hope this will solve ur problem.

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  4. Thanks man, it works perfectly.
    Please, help me to launch it from the menu Accessories.
    You are a different genius, you're a usefull one

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  5. Excellent instructions. Even for a Linux newbie like me.

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  6. Thank you very much!

    I'm a bit of a linux-newbie and I somehow didn't thought (or actually even notice :( strange...) the "run in terminal" button. I was really wondering how to install it as it had no configure file etc.

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  7. Boy o Boy o Boy .......... Was breaking ma head installing this in ubuntu 9.04 , tried installing using wine but it neva seemed to be working ... Tot I should installing windows to work with this but THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH ... U made ma day :-]

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  8. hi dude,,i cant open the packet tracer activity that i did from packet tracer for windows ver. to packet tracer linux ver. Is there no other way to open it?

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  9. @Winston, You need to open the packet tracer program first in ubuntu then form the file menu open the windows ver activity file, it will be fine than.
    Thanks

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  10. thx! it was so easy to install and it works just fine on ubuntu 10.04!

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