Showing posts with label installing packet tracer in ubuntu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label installing packet tracer in ubuntu. Show all posts

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"