Hey there, Manjaro community. I can’t get packet tracer working to save my life, and I need it for school so it’s rather troublesome. I would rather not have to boot into windows to solve this problem so hopefully we can fix it together.
I’m using Manjaro Sway, running the 5.10 kernel. AMD hardware.
So I go on the AUR with yay and install packettracer using the .deb from the Cisco website, last time I installed it on Manjaro it worked without a hitch but on this fresh-ish install I have no such luck.
I notice after the install it says there is an issue with permissions, saying the package wants 775 permission, but the file system is 755. It’s complaining about many of the folders in /usr/. I don’t remember exactly which ones but it was easy of course to change the permissions but it didn’t fix it.
It also gives the error
gtk-update-icon-cache: No theme index file.
error: command failed to execute correctly
Which I don’t know what that means exactly and my searches haven’t helped me much.
But it acts as if the program successfully installed, so I go to run it and I get
/usr/bin/packettracer: line 8: 6503 Aborted (core dumped) ./PacketTracer7 “$@” > /dev/null 2>&1
better check out line 8 on said file.
#!/bin/bash
echo Starting Packet Tracer 7.3.1
PTDIR=/opt/packettracer
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/packettracer/bin
pushd /opt/packettracer/bin > /dev/null
./PacketTracer7 “$@” > /dev/null 2>&1 #LINE 8
popd > /dev/null
I’m no bash scripter so I’m not really sure what that means.
Anyway, I appreciate any help I can get!
