First of all, I am new here so hello everyone 
I have a strange problem with this little network simulator from cisco called packet tracer. There are two versions floating around in the net, a i386 deb package and a generic (ubuntu) tar.gz version which contains an install script. I have to point out now that I own a amd64 desktop system with kubuntu 12.04 64-bit installed. Both versions install fine, but when I try to run the program.. nothing happens.
Looking closer, I realized that ./packettracer is just a short shell script which sets a library path for the program and then calls the real binary file, located in the ./bin folder. So I tried running the binary myself:
This "no such file or directory" message puzzles me, since the file is obviously there and has execute permissions for everyone. What gives?
Here follow the contents of "packettracer" script, for reference:
A last thing to note: I have also a laptop with kubuntu 12.04 installed, and the program opens just fine there. The only difference I can think of between the two systems is that desktop is a clean install, whereas the laptop has been upgraded from Kubuntu 11.10.
Apologies for such a long first post!
I have a strange problem with this little network simulator from cisco called packet tracer. There are two versions floating around in the net, a i386 deb package and a generic (ubuntu) tar.gz version which contains an install script. I have to point out now that I own a amd64 desktop system with kubuntu 12.04 64-bit installed. Both versions install fine, but when I try to run the program.. nothing happens.
Code:
~$ cd /opt/pt/ johndoe@johndoe-desktop:/opt/pt$ ls -l total 80 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 art drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 backgrounds drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14227 Jul 1 21:15 eula.txt drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 extensions drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 help -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2748 Jul 1 21:15 install drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 LANGUAGES drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 lib -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 163 Jul 1 21:15 linguist -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179 Jul 1 21:15 packettracer drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 saves -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1234 Jul 1 21:15 set_ptenv.sh drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 sounds drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 templates -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 159 Jul 1 21:15 tpl.linguist -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 175 Jul 1 21:15 tpl.packettracer johndoe@johndoe-desktop:/opt/pt$ ./packettracer Starting Packet Tracer 5.3 johndoe@johndoe-desktop:/opt/pt$
Code:
johndoe@johndoe-desktop:/opt/pt$ cd bin johndoe@johndoe-desktop:/opt/pt/bin$ ls -l total 59452 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 accessible -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 257 Jul 1 21:15 Cisco-PacketTracer.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 242 Jul 1 21:15 Cisco-pka.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 241 Jul 1 21:15 Cisco-pkt.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 243 Jul 1 21:15 Cisco-pkz.xml drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 imageformats -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1287820 Jul 1 21:15 linguist drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 21:15 Linux -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59380421 Jul 1 21:15 PacketTracer5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1552 Jul 1 21:15 PT.conf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 98968 Jul 1 21:15 unzip -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60784 Jul 1 21:15 zip -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3412 Jul 1 21:15 ZIP_LICENSE johndoe@johndoe-desktop:/opt/pt/bin$ ./PacketTracer5 bash: ./PacketTracer5: No such file or directory johndoe@johndoe-desktop:/opt/pt/bin$
Here follow the contents of "packettracer" script, for reference:
Code:
#!/bin/bash echo Starting Packet Tracer 5.3 PTDIR=/opt/pt export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PTDIR/lib pushd $PTDIR/bin > /dev/null ./PacketTracer5 "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1 popd > /dev/null
Apologies for such a long first post!
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