How to Install Cisco Packet Tracer in Ubuntu

To Install Cisco Packet Tracer in Ubuntu

Cisco Packet Tracer is a network simulator tool that provides simulation, visualisation, authoring, etc., Installation of Cisco Packet tracer in Ubuntu is explained in this article.

Download the cisco packet tracer package from the following link,
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~kotfid/packettracer/LinuxUbuntu/PacketTracer63_linux.tar.gz

List the downloaded package directory.

root@user1-linuhelp: Desktop# ls
PacketTracer63_linux.tar.gz       vmware-tools-distrib
VMwareTools-9.6.0-1294478.tar.gz

Extract the package by using tar command.

root@user1-linuhelp: Desktop# tar -xvf PacketTracer63_linux.tar.gz
PacketTracer63/
PacketTracer63/LANGUAGES/
PacketTracer63/LANGUAGES/default.ptl
PacketTracer63/LANGUAGES/default.ts
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PacketTracer63/help/default/Cisco_Packet_Tracer_6.3.pdf
PacketTracer63/help/default/menu.htm
PacketTracer63/bin/PacketTracer6

Go to the extracted directory and run the following script file for installation of Cisco Packet Tracer.

root@user1-linuhelp: Desktop/PacketTracer63# ls
art          eula.txt    install    saves         templates
backgrounds  extensions  LANGUAGES  set_ptenv.sh  tpl.linguist
bin          help        lib        sounds        tpl.packettracer

root@user1-linuhelp:/home/user1/Desktop/PacketTracer63# bash install
Welcome to Cisco Packet Tracer 6.3 Installation

Read the following End User License Agreement " EULA"  carefully. You must accept the terms of this EULA to install and use Cisco Packet Tracer.
Press the Enter key to read the EULA.

                                                                      Cisco Packet Tracer
                                                                   Software License Agreement
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Cisco, Cisco Systems, and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of
Cisco Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and certain other countries.  Any other
trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective
owners.

Do you accept the terms of the EULA? (Y)es/(N)o
yes
You have accepted the terms to the EULA. Congratulations. Packet Tracer will now be installed.
Enter location to install Cisco Packet Tracer or press enter for default [/opt/pt]:
Installing into /opt/pt
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Should we create a symbolic link " packettracer"  in /usr/local/bin for easy Cisco Packet Tracer startup? [Yn] y
Type " packettracer"  in a terminal to start Cisco Packet Tracer
Writing PT6HOME environment variable to /etc/profile
Cisco Packet Tracer 6.3 installed successfully

Add the packet tracer setup into /etc/profile.

root@user1-linuhelp:Desktop/PacketTracer63# bash set_ptenv.sh
Using default directory: /opt/pt
Writing PT6HOME environment variable to /etc/profile

Run the packettracer command in terminal to open the cisco packet tracer.

root@user1-linuhelp:Desktop/PacketTracer63# packettracer

Click the Guest Login to open the cisco packettracer.

Then choose the Confirm Guest option.

Now the Cisco packet tracer tool opens.

Execute the network simulation of your choice.