/com.cisco.PacketTracer

A Flatpak manifest for Cisco's Packet Tracer.

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Packet Tracer Flatpak

A Flatpak manifest for Cisco's Packet Tracer.

About

This is a Flatpak manifest for Cisco's Packet Tracer. The Deb package in which Cisco distributes their binary build of Packet Tracer is not included as the download link for and use of Packet Tracer itself requires a Netacad account.

This is currently based on Packet Tracer 8.1.1 and is intended to track the latest release. For previous releases see janymal/PacketTracer7-flatpak and rpallai/flatpak-pt.

Building

  1. Clone this repository.

    git clone https://github.com/losuler/com.cisco.PacketTracer

  2. Install build dependencies (using your preferred package manager).

    dnf install flatpak-builder

  3. Install Flatpak runtime dependencies.

    flatpak install \
    org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/20.08 \
    org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/20.08

    if you use KDE Plasma can install Flatpak Kde runtime dependencies

    flatpak install org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15-21.08
flatpak install org.kde.Sdk/x86_64/5.15-21.08

  4. Download the official Deb package to the cloned repository (don't rename it).

    https://www.netacad.com/portal/resources/packet-tracer

  5. Build and install the Flatpak.

    cd com.cisco.PacketTracer
flatpak-builder --install build com.cisco.PacketTracer.yml

Or

  flatpak-builder --install build com.cisco.PacketTracer.KDE.yml

In case to use KDE

Notes

  • Do not remove the .flatpak-builder directory that is created during the build (while the Flatpak is installed) as it serves as the local Flatpak repository.