Cisco Packet Tracer

[concept]

CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 27 03:04:26 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

After installation Cisco Packet Tracer /opt/pt/packettracer only outputs "Starting Cisco Packet Tracer 6.2" with no actual launch of the program.

similar inquiries with solutions I had no success in translating to EL7 -
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/questi ... 19-64-bit/
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/questi ... 21-x86_64/


Thanks for any working solutions

[gerald_clark]

CentOS does not install anything in /opt.
You will need to contact the supplier of the software for support.

[jyoung]

Why use Cisco Packet Tracer when perfectly good utilities like tcpdump and wireshark are provided by the community?

With that said, have you tried to run the program with SELinux permissive? Will you post any AVCs? I'd bet that this might help:

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semanage fcontext -a -t netutils_exec_t "/opt/pt/packettracer"; restorecon -v /opt/pt/packettracer

[concept]

selinux is disabled while other issues unrelated to this post are being worked on. I do use tcpdump & wireshark when traffic analysis is needed, this Cisco app is geared towards simulating their proprietary equipment. Based on past experience getting Packet Tracer to run on another x64 distro, I do recall multilib 32 vs 64 bit comes into play as the reason for the app failing though my Centos knowledge is not sufficient to solve the library mysteries.

[nsolovan]

Hi guys,
any updates on this ?

Just installed the 6.2 version and I'm facing the same scenario.

[sabatino]

And me too! Same problem... just "Starting" and nothing more!

[silveira98]

Hello Everyone, I was having the same problem "Stating" and nothing more, and I found a solution:

First I looked for missing libraries and dependencies:

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 ldd /opt/pt/bin/PacketTracer6 

this command lists all shared libraries required for the program, after that i used yum to install all the missing libraries.

the only one i couldn't find was libcrypto.so.1.0.0, but after searching online i found that many Fedora users that were having the same problem were able to run Cisco Packet Tracer by installing the openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0i-1.fc20.i686.rpm. It's a small package with only libcrypto.so.1.0.0 and 3 other libraries. After installing openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0i-1.fc20.i686.rpm Cisco Packet Tracer started running perfectly.

So Resuming:

1) list all libraries required for Cisco Packet Tracer using ldd

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ldd /opt/pt/bin/PacketTracer6

2)Install all missing/not found libraries

3)Install the openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0i-1.fc20.i686.rpm(I don't remember exactly where i found this lib but it's easy to found on google)

4)Enjoy Cisco Packet Tracer

This worked for me on my:
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64 x86_64 x86_64

with the following repositories enabled:

adobe-linux-x86_64
base/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Base
elrepo ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el7
*epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64
extras/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Extras
google-chrome google-chrome
nux-dextop/x86_64 Nux.Ro RPMs for general desktop use
updates/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Updates

[alor23]

Hello Everyone, I was having the same problem "Stating" and nothing more, and I found a solution:

First I looked for missing libraries and dependencies:

Code: Select all

 ldd /opt/pt/bin/PacketTracer6 

this command lists all shared libraries required for the program, after that i used yum to install all the missing libraries.

the only one i couldn't find was libcrypto.so.1.0.0, but after searching online i found that many Fedora users that were having the same problem were able to run Cisco Packet Tracer by installing the openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0i-1.fc20.i686.rpm. It's a small package with only libcrypto.so.1.0.0 and 3 other libraries. After installing openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0i-1.fc20.i686.rpm Cisco Packet Tracer started running perfectly.

So Resuming:

1) list all libraries required for Cisco Packet Tracer using ldd

Code: Select all

ldd /opt/pt/bin/PacketTracer6

2)Install all missing/not found libraries

3)Install the openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0i-1.fc20.i686.rpm(I don't remember exactly where i found this lib but it's easy to found on google)

4)Enjoy Cisco Packet Tracer

This worked for me on my:
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64 x86_64 x86_64

with the following repositories enabled:

adobe-linux-x86_64
base/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Base
elrepo ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el7
*epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64
extras/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Extras
google-chrome google-chrome
nux-dextop/x86_64 Nux.Ro RPMs for general desktop use
updates/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Updates

I was also facing the same problem, i'll tey this, hope that, it will work.

[1885]

uname -a
Linux vita 3.10.0-327.36.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Sep 18 13:04:29 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I also am trying to install CiscoPacketTracker
# packettracer
Starting Packet Tracer 7.0 (nothing!)

Any ideas on getting : libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => not found
libQtWebKit.so.4 => not found

I have two missing packages:
]# ldd /opt/pt/bin/PacketTracer7 | more
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007ffcb888e000)
libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => not found
libQtWebKit.so.4 => not found
libQtScriptTools.so.4 => /lib64/libQtScriptTools.so.4 (0x00007ff9faebd000)
libQtScript.so.4 => /lib64/libQtScript.so.4 (0x00007ff9faa79000)
libQtSvg.so.4 => /lib64/libQtSvg.so.4 (0x00007ff9fa820000)
libQtXml.so.4 => /lib64/libQtXml.so.4 (0x00007ff9fa5dc000)
libQtGui.so.4 => /lib64/libQtGui.so.4 (0x00007ff9f9901000)
libQtNetwork.so.4 => /lib64/libQtNetwork.so.4 (0x00007ff9f95ba000)
libQtCore.so.4 => /lib64/libQtCore.so.4 (0x00007ff9f90cf000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ff9f8eb3000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ff9f8baa000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff9f88a8000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ff9f8692000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff9f82cf000)
libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007ff9f80b9000)
libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x00007ff9f7eb6000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007ff9f7b7f000)
libpng15.so.15 => /lib64/libpng15.so.15 (0x00007ff9f7954000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /lib64/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007ff9f76ad000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00007ff9f745d000)
libSM.so.6 => /lib64/libSM.so.6 (0x00007ff9f7255000)
libICE.so.6 => /lib64/libICE.so.6 (0x00007ff9f7038000)
libXi.so.6 => /lib64/libXi.so.6 (0x00007ff9f6e28000)
libXrender.so.1 => /lib64/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007ff9f6c1e000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /lib64/libXrandr.so.2 (0x00007ff9f6a13000)
libXfixes.so.3 => /lib64/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00007ff9f680d000)
libXcursor.so.1 => /lib64/libXcursor.so.1 (0x00007ff9f6602000)

[cheban]

Good day. Say me, please, where i may download openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0i-1.fc20.i686.rpm
www.deltaeridani.com is not working.