Running Packet Tracer in Linux Ubuntu

I'm trying to get packet tracer to work on ubuntu. I downloaded the wine program and now I'm stuck. I ran winecfg in terminal and now I'm not sure of the next step. The tutorial I'm using says to run wine /path/to/PacketTracer_setup.exe next, but when I ran it in terminal got an error message saying "wine: cannot find '/path/to/PacketTracer_setup.exe' ". What am I doing wrong? Here's a link to the tutorial Running Cisco Packet Tracer in Linux - Linux * Screw

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Forsaken_GA

Are you actually putting in /path/to/PacketTracer, or are you replacing it with the proper path? The wine error is telling you what the problem is - it can't find the file you've requested at the path specified

computer g33k

In the command line on terminal I put in wine /path/to/PacketTracer_setup.exe as the tutorial says to do.

petedude

Do you have any extra RAM? A last resort would be to run a virtualized Windows session with VMWare Player or VirtualBox.

computer g33k

I have windows install on my machine, but I hate using it. I'm just going to run packet tracer on windows. Thanks for the help guys.

Forsaken_GA

computer g33k wrote: »

In the command line on terminal I put in wine /path/to/PacketTracer_setup.exe as the tutorial says to do.

Ok, so do you actually have a directory called /path/to with PacketTracer_setup.exe in it? Or is it in some other folder, like your home directory?

You're supposed to replace the /path/to portion with the actual path to where the .exe is. For example, if I downloaded PacketTracer_setup.exe to a folder named win in my home directory, the command I'd run would be wine /home/forsaken/win/PacketTracer_setup.exe

ccnxjr

Sorry getting to this kinda late, been busy with the new gig

Long story, anyway
There is a version of Packet Tracer for Ubuntu and Fedora now.
However you do need to have access to the NetAcad site to download.

CodeBlox

That version has been there for a while... at LEAST a year.