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#1 2017-08-30 10:21:07

Xhendos
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[SOLVED]packettracer installation problem

Dear community,

I am trying to install the   packettracer packag, but without success.
Firstly I installed the depencies which was in my case icu52.

Now I am trying to download and build packettracer. First I cloned the repository

 git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packettracer.git 

After cloning I changed my directory to the newly created one which was named 'packettracer'.
I tried to build using the makpkg utility, since there is a file called "PKGBUILD"

 makepkg -sic 

This resulted in

==> Making package: packettracer 7.1-1 (Wed Aug 30 12:13:38 CEST 2017)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found packettracer
  -> Found linguist
  -> Found packettracer.sh
==> ERROR: PacketTracer71_64bit_linux.tar.gz was not found in the build directory and is not a URL.

The following files are in the directory after cloning the git repository.

linguist  packettracer  packettracer.sh  PKGBUILD  pt.install


Does anyone have experience with installing packettracer and could help me out?
Thanks in advise.

Last edited by Xhendos (2017-08-30 11:04:34)

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#2 2017-08-30 10:32:16

Slithery
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Re: [SOLVED]packettracer installation problem

Welcome to the forums Xhendos smile

Read the AUR comments on the page you linked to, you need to source that file yourself from your netacad account.

Most AUR packages will download all of the files you need, the exception is when the source can't be downloaded publicly which is the case here.
If this step is required, it will be mentioned in the PKGBUILD or the AUR comments, another reason you should always read the PKGBUILD of any packages you build yourself. I've just checked and the packettracer PKGBUILD doesn't mention this, this is an oversight on the packagers part.

Last edited by Slithery (2017-08-30 10:46:05)


No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
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#3 2017-08-30 11:02:26

Xhendos
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Re: [SOLVED]packettracer installation problem

slithery wrote:

Welcome to the forums Xhendos smile

Read the AUR comments on the page you linked to, you need to source that file yourself from your netacad account.

Most AUR packages will download all of the files you need, the exception is when the source can't be downloaded publicly which is the case here.
If this step is required, it will be mentioned in the PKGBUILD or the AUR comments, another reason you should always read the PKGBUILD of any packages you build yourself. I've just checked and the packettracer PKGBUILD doesn't mention this, this is an oversight on the packagers part.

Thanks for the mention. College started and I am stressing a little bit because I need Packettracer this friday.
I haven't noticed the pinned comment on the page which said you need to download the PacketTracer71_64bit_linux.tar.gz yourself.

I got it installing now smile

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#4 2017-08-30 11:06:56

Slithery
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Re: [SOLVED]packettracer installation problem

Brilliant.

Don't forget to mark this thread solved...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

Edit - I see you just did as I was writing this post smile

Last edited by Slithery (2017-08-30 11:07:43)


No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
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