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Demonio

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Registered: 2026-02-02

Posts: 2

Cisco Packet Tracer Validity Check error

Whenever I try to download Cisco Packet Tracer it says "One or more files did not pass the validity check" more specifically the .deb file for Cisco packet tracer (CiscoPacketTracer_900_Ubuntu_64bit.deb). I've tried reading the wiki to solve the issue but I couldnt find anything from help and neither does a tutorial show how to fix it. I'd be helpful if someone could tell me how to solve this issue

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,591

Re: Cisco Packet Tracer Validity Check error

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

Demonio

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Registered: 2026-02-02

Posts: 2

Re: Cisco Packet Tracer Validity Check error

I understand my bad.

==> Creando el paquete: packettracer 9.0.0-1 (mar 03 feb 2026 10:56:50)
==> Comprobando dependencias mientras se ejecuta...
==> Comprobando dependencias mientras se compila...
==> Recibiendo las fuentes...
  -> CiscoPacketTracer_900_Ubuntu_64bit.deb ha sido encontrado
==> Validando los archivos source con sha512sums...
    CiscoPacketTracer_900_Ubuntu_64bit.deb ... HA FALLADO
==> ERROR: ¡Uno o más archivos no superaron el control de validación!

That's the whole message it gives, although its in spanish.

Everything2067

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Registered: 2025-06-29

Posts: 68

Re: Cisco Packet Tracer Validity Check error

Looks like its this AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/packettracer
The PKGBUILD is assuming that you have already downloaded the required deb file in the same folder as the PKGBUILD. The link in the AUR package opens a download page, which requires a login for downloading the deb file. That explains the assumption.

Clone the AUR package, download the deb file and place it in the same folder as the PKGBUILD. Then run makepkg.
If you are using an AUR helper, make sure that you update this manually. AUR helpers won't help much.

Last edited by Everything2067 (2026-02-03 11:29:23)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,064

Re: Cisco Packet Tracer Validity Check error

And as for posting error messages prepend the command whose output you want to share with

LC_ALL=C

to force an english locale