How to get Cisco Packet Tracer on Manjaro?

[dreven]

Hello there. I am trying to install packettracer on my computer using yaourt, but I get this error:
( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
And then if I try to build the package, I get:
==> ERROR: PacketTracer_731_amd64.deb was not found in the build directory and is not a URL.
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build packettracer.
Also, when I downloaded the .deb from the Cisco Packet Tracer site, I didn’t know what to do to make it work as the tutorials I found online (like the arch wiki) showed it as a .tar.gz. How do I get it to work?

[moson]

From what i see you have to put the deb into the build dir.

1. Git clone AUR repo https://aur.archlinux.org/packettracer.git

2. Copy .deb into the cloned dir

3. Run makepkg in cloned dir

4. Install the built pkg with your favourite package manager.

[acutbal]

The instructions how to install are pinned in the AUR’s Packet Tracer page:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/packettracer/

[dreven]

Yes but could you explain the instructions? I’m afraid I don’t fully understand.

[acutbal]

Easy:

1. Download the snapshot from AUR:
   https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/packettracer.tar.gz

2. Uncompress the packettracer.tar.gz snapshot (it creates the dir packettracer/ with the PKGBUILD on it).

3. Download the latest packettracer .deb file from your Netacad account:
   https://www.netacad.com/

4. Copy it into the packettracer/ dir.

5. Open a Terminal in the packettracer/ dir. and create the package with the command makepkg. It creates a packettracer.pkg.tar.xz.

6. From the same opened terminal, install the package with either makepkg -i or sudo pacman -U packettracer.pkg.tar.xz.

[cfinnberg]

I posted some instructions some time ago. For this version, something like:

yay -G packettracer
cd packettracer
# Download PacketTracer_731_amd64.deb to this folder
makepkg
sudo pacman -U packettracer-7.3.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

[dreven]

thanks it worked!