Cisco Packet Tracer is a router and switch simulator. It is used to practice setting up cisco routers and switches using cisco’s proprietary IOS. I installed the Packet Tracer 5.3.1 on my Fedora 15 (X86_64) desktop system.
Download the PacketTracer tarball from the following link
http://hotfile.com/dl/81148749/bc7ca56/PacketTracer531_Fedora.tar.gz
Extract the tar ball
# tar xzf PacketTracer531_Fedora.tar.gz
Install
# cd PacketTracer53
# ./install
Run
# packettracer
When I run it at the first time, it just displayed “Starting Packet Tracer 5.3″ and quit to command prompt without any error message. I edited the /opt/pt/packettracer file, and modified as below
#!/bin/bash
echo Starting Packet Tracer 5.3
PTDIR=/opt/pt
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PTDIR/lib
#pushd $PTDIR/bin > /dev/null
#./PacketTracer5 $@ > /dev/null 2>&1
#popd > /dev/null
pushd $PTDIR/bin
./PacketTracer5 $@
popd
Run “packettracer” again, it told me I need to install ld-linux.so.2. I installed it, and run again. It told me I need to install libpng12.so.0, and so on. After I installed all the lack packages, it began to run normally. Finally, I recovered the /opt/pt/packettracer file to its original.
I have f15 and install with no problems.
Thanks
By: Camilo on August 19, 2011
at 1:00 am
i got it from here, it works well: Packet Tracer 5.3
By: fralan on August 22, 2011
at 11:41 pm
After running ‘packettracer’ with your modifications to the /opt/pt/packettracer file, I get:
$ ./packettracer
Starting Packet Tracer 5.3
/opt/pt/bin /usr/local/bin
./packettracer: line 11: ./PacketTracer5: No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin
x86_64 architecture. Any ideas?
By: Anonymous on August 23, 2011
at 12:30 pm
thanks bro you saved my life
By: Anonymous on January 17, 2012
at 2:22 am
I cant get PT to run on 64 bit FC 16.
I used the tarball and when I start the app it says starting packet tracer and thats it.
By: jason on January 24, 2012
at 12:47 pm
plz send me link for packet tracer for rhel6 64bit
By: Dhiman Dinesh on March 29, 2012
at 4:13 am