Package PacketTracer as an AppImage for GNU/Linux
Current PacketTracer packaging gives trouble with some GNU/Linux distributions, specially if they are some years old. Package contains a bunch of Qt libraries but some of them refer to depend on other libraries not declared in the .deb package and it ends up giving runtime errors unless in Ubuntu 18.04 or other modern distro.
An AppImage would be a perfect fit to have a portable PacketTracer for all GNU/Linux distributions.
Javier Puche
shared this idea
AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
responded
Thank you for the suggestion. The Packet Tracer team mentioned the following information that is found in the Packet Tracer FAQs: Run the command "sudo apt-get install " and follow the instructions shown on your screen.
(Note that using "sudo dpkg -i " will not install the dependencies needed).
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Javier Puche
commented
Do not worry any more about this. Someone already did it: https://blog.desdelinux.net/pkg2appimage-como-construir-nuestros-propios-archivos-appimage/
A pity not to have an official Cisco AppImage, but it will do. -
Javier Puche
commented
Hello,
I will appreciate if you forward this to the Packet Tracer team:
The apt-get install (or apt-get -f install after a dpkg -i) will work only on some recent distributions. Try it on ubuntu 14.04 and you will see a whole mess of bad declared dependencies, as well as on debian 9 and others. Some times it will even install and then fail to run because the embeded Qt libraries confilct with those on the system and there is no simple workaround (using only your embeded ones will not work because they depend on other basic libraries not present on the system and you did not declare those dependencies) -
Juan Martín
commented
It sounds very good!
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Anonymous
commented
Me parece buena idea.