Container for Cisco Packet Tracer 8.2.1 with Podman

This is my personal repos to build Packet Tracer container on Fedora (running Xorg not Wayland).

Packet Tracer is only supported on Ubuntu so I'm building a Ubuntu container with Podman.
Packet Tracer has a mandatory login process (skillsforall.com) so I added firefox.
Also added a missing qt5 lib for version 8.2.1.

Install the application with Podman:

Note you need to accept EULA (End-User-License-Agreement) from Cisco to install the software on your system. A dialog will show up during the installation.

build.sh script

The script will run a container then create a local image with Packet Tracer installed.

You can then use that image to run a container with the application already installed: tags are editable on top of the script (variables).

Download Ubuntu package from Cisco

Signup or login to skillsforall.com to download the Ubuntu version.

You should get a .deb file (e.g Packet_Tracer821_amd64_signed.deb).

build the image

mkdir tmp && cd tmp
git clone https://github.com/lpwprojects/packettracer_container.git . 
cp ~/Downloads/Packet_Tracer821_amd64_signed.deb .
chmod +x ./build.sh
./build.sh

Create new container from local image with the application

# Example with shared volume '/home/share' from host as '/SHARE' inside container (e.g import labs you download into Packet Tracer)
podman run --name <CONTAINER NAME> -dt -e DISPLAY -v /home/share:/SHARE:Z -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix --security-opt label=type:container_runtime_t <LOCAL IMAGE NAME>

Run the application

podman exec <CONTAINER NAME> packettracer

# ==> bashr: alias packettracer='podman start <CONTAINER NAME> && podman exec <CONTAINER NAME> packettracer ; podman stop <CONTAINER NAME>'